China on alert due to a new avian flu which already killed two people in Shanghai

A journalist takes photos in front of the Jiangsu Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention in Nanjing, capital of east China’s Jiangsu Province, April 1, 2013. Two people in east China’s Shanghai died in early March after contracting H7N9, a strain of avian influenza that had never been passed to humans before. Another woman in Anhui who also contracted the virus in early March is in a critical condition and has been transferred to east China’s Nanjing for treatment, according to China’s National Health and Family Planning Commission. <Xinhua/Shen Peng>