Bird Flu - China
For the first time in several months, Chinese health authorities are reporting a human case of avian influenza A(H7N9). The case is from Yunnan province.
Plague - Peru
Officials in La Libertad, Peru are carrying out a fumigation campaign in the District Municipality of Chocope, Ascope province after the presence of the agent of plague, Yersinia pestis, was confirmed in fleas found on sewer rodents.
Authorities have embarked on a fumigation campaign in the affected area. Killing the rats was not the answer, what is infected is the flea, not the rodent. If they kill the rodent, the flea will jump and possibly infect other animals.
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