Taiwan upgrades bird flu alert: More cases in China

TAIPEI – Taiwan’s Department of Health has designated infections of the avian influenza strain H7N9 as a notifiable disease after four more cases of a bird flu virus new to humans were reported in China. "We have decided to list the H7N9 infection as a fifth-category notifiable disease," Health Minister Chiu Wen-da said. The DOH also raised the quarantine alert against H7N9 from Grade 2 to Grade 3.