SHANGHAI
China has banned live poultry sales in three cities, after more human H7N9 infections and deaths have been reported in mainly the Eastern part of the country.
According to news agency, Xinhua, bird flu killed 19 in China this year, with 96 humans having contracted the infection, 28 of them in critical condition.
Most of the human cases occurred in the industrial Zhejiang Province.
According to medical experts, there has been no evidence so far of any sustained person-to-person transmission of this infection.
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