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Subject CDC working on vaccine, tests for novel H7N9 virus
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Apr 5, 2013 (CIDRAP News) – US health officials said today they are working on a potential vaccine and diagnostic tests for the novel H7N9 influenza strain in China and are warning clinicians to be alert, but they emphasized that they see no signs that the virus is spreading from person to person.

At a news teleconference this afternoon, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) officials said the agency and vaccine manufacturers are developing a vaccine seed strain for the virus in case it starts spreading widely. The CDC also sent an advisory to clinicians today urging them to watch for possible cases in travelers returning from China.

CDC Director Tom Frieden, MD, MPH, said Chinese public health officials have reported 16 human cases as of today, with six deaths, from four provinces. Fifteen cases have been in adults, with ages ranging from 27 to 87, and one patient, a 4-year-old child, has an apparently mild illness.

The source of the virus has not been conclusively determined, but Chinese officials said yesterday that they found it in pigeons, and today they reported finding it in chickens.

Frieden said there has been "no person-to-person transmission and no epidemiologic link between any of the cases so far." But he added, "There are two families where there was illness in the family around the time of a confirmed case, and those situations are being investigated by Chinese authorities to see if there was person-to-person transmission."

He said that with a contagious flu virus, you would expect to find 20 or 30 cases among 100 close contacts of an infected person, but none have been found in the Chinese contact investigations so far. "In addition, many or most of the cases have direct contact with live poultry," he added.

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