Bird flu resurge in China.

The articles can be found here and here.

   There has been outbreak of H7N9 bird flu just in time for the Lunar New Year - peak time for travel, poultry sales, and mass contamination. In January alone, 19 deaths and 96 human cases have been reported, according to figures from the Chinese Center for Disease Control. According to the WHO, most of the human cases were exposed to the H7N9 virus through contact with poultry or contaminated environments, such as live bird markets.

   This could spread, not only to neighboring countries, but all around the world as well. Through the increasing impacts of globalization, many countries, as well as the United States, have frequent contact to China, through trade especially. If  we, as well as China, aren't careful, this could easily become a worldwide epidemic. It is quite bad luck that this outbreak has come at such an inopportune time. It will be very hard to suppress the spread of H7N9 during the celebrations of the Lunar New Year. Hopefully China's government takes some precautionary steps in their distribution of poultry and travel. Like all flu viruses, this will fade during May but will probably return next year. Salud (it's Spanish, culture yourself :).