Bird Flu

McDonald's sales slide on avian flu fears; Wendy's revenue rises

2013-05-08 08:10:00

McDonald’s had another rough month as sales at restaurants open more than a year slid in April, a month after the world’s largest burger company said the gauge dipped 1% during its first quarter. This time, the Oak Brook, Ill., chain...

In China, rat meat is sold as lamb

2013-05-03 05:02:00

BEIJING -- Feasting on strips of mutton dropped in a simmering pot is a popular dining pastime in China, but what if the meat served is actually made of rat? That may be on the minds of diners after the latest stomach-churning food scandal to hit China....

In China, let a thousand blogs bloom

2013-04-30 00:00:00

China employs an army of censors. As many as 50,000 well-trained monitors police the Internet, and 12 government departments are empowered to search and seize information and shut down users and sites. They work fast: A recent study conducted by two...

Bird flu more difficult to detect this time around

2013-04-26 04:00:00

China has suffered outbreaks of bird flu before, but the virus that has now infected more than 100 people across eastern China and Taiwan is different in several important ways, according to scientists and researchers. The new virus is H7N9, a different...

China's H7N9 bird flu death toll likely to rise

2013-04-25 05:15:00

Chinese health officials are warning that the death toll from the H7N9 bird flu is likely to rise in the weeks and months ahead. In a report on the outbreak that began in China in February, doctors and researchers from from several public health...

Bird flu outbreak is spreading fear in China

2013-04-20 19:45:00

BEIJING — On a subway car in Shanghai, commotion breaks out when someone spots a live chicken poking its head out of a bag tucked under one of the seats. On a highway in Zhejiang province, a motorist is so panicked by bird droppings landing on her...

Chinese officials urge calm as seventh bird flu victim dies

2013-04-08 07:42:00

The toll from China’s new strain of bird flu climbed to seven on Monday with the death of a 64-year-old retiree in Shanghai and the number of cases spread to 24, but officials expressed confidence the outbreak could be contained. The World...

Bird flu deaths among Chinese reach 6

2013-04-05 07:32:00

BEIJING -- A new form of bird flu has infected more than a dozen people and caused six deaths in China in the last two months, according to official Chinese media reports. As of Friday, Chinese media reported 14 people were infected with the virus, a...

Kate Atkinson's 'Life After Life' is a clever creation

2013-04-05 13:30:00

There's a bit of Edward Gorey-esque glee in the way Kate Atkinson keeps knocking off her main character in "Life After Life." And yet, she manages to invest these repeated deaths with poetry and emotion. This ingenious narrative conceit — the...

CDC chief: No cases of H7N9 avian flu found in U.S.

2013-04-05 12:49:00

There have been no reported cases of the new H7N9 avian flu in the U.S., officials at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control said Friday.� In China, however, the numbers of victims continue to creep up, with 16 people in four provinces having been...

Pictures in the News | December 26, 2012

2012-12-26 09:04:49

The Week in Pictures | December 24-30, 2012

2012-12-28 15:03:50

Live poultry markets are suspected as the source of most of the confirmed cases of H7N9 infection in China. Chinese health officials report that the death toll from the bird flu outbreak is likely to rise.

2013-04-24 23:12:37

Women wear face masks as they visit the historic Bund in Shanghai. Experts from the UN's health agency arrived in China on a weeklong mission in Beijing and Shanghai to examine whether the H7N9 bird flu virus is spreading among humans after a cluster of cases among relatives but downplayed fears

2013-04-19 00:00:00

Health workers collect bags of dead chickens at Huhuai wholesale agricultural market in Shanghai on April 5. Authorities in Shanghai began a mass slaughter after the H7N9 bird flu virus, which had already killed five people in China, was detected there.

2013-04-12 14:56:00