Via his blog My Health Beijing: H7N9 Arrives in Beijing, Advice Is The Same. Excerpt:
My thoughts so far:
• I am very concerned about the severity of this virus on healthy, younger persons. Even this new case in Henan has yet another healthy 34 year old man in critical condition.
• These new cases dramatically widen the infection zone, and I will be very interested to find out how the virus suddenly jumped hundreds of miles to two other spots.
• The good news remains that there still seems to be no human-to-human transmission, and all cases seem clearly linked to that person’s direct contact with poultry
• Other good news seems to be that the anti-flu medicine, usually Tamiflu, seems to be effective against H7N9.
But while this certainly makes it more real for us in Beijing, it still doesn’t change the advice we are giving to the public to avoid infection. This advice obviously involves avoiding all contact with all types of live poultry, even at a petting zoo. And let’s give three cheers for hand washing, always a public health doctor’s number one suggestion, and for good reason.
