H7N9 influenza: something old, something new ….

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In February 2013, two patients living in Shanghai were admitted to the Shanghai Fifth Hospital with fever, cough and respiratory tract infection, followed by severe pneumonia, respiratory distress and multiorgan dysfunction(1). While the first patient, an 87-year-old man, did not present a history of exposure to live birds during the preceding 2 weeks, the second patient, a 27-year-old man,was a butcher at a...

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