H7N9 is now airborne, 25% fatality rate

[bigpaul]

(24 May 2013, 17:35)Tartar Horde Wrote:

(24 May 2013, 15:04)bigpaul Wrote: I thought the problem with avian flu is that the Chinese(and other Asian races) literaly LIVE WITH their poultry almost like pets like we do with cats and dogs.

No not at all BP, it is just that a lot of asian cultures will only consider chicken, rabbitt etc as fresh if they are alive and kicking, so you see lots of them in the markets in cages everywhere you go. They don't use supermarkets widely yet and so every market or small village will have live poultry running around.

I saw pictures on tv of the chickens actually in the houses.