China braced for a major outbreak of the new bird flu H7N9 virus after it reported the death of a sixth person on Friday with two more new cases taking the total number of cases to 16.
Chinese scientists have also invented a detection kit to be distributed to hospitals for quick diagnosis.
Also Shanghai, China’s biggest metropolis with 23 million people moved on a war footing halting sales of chickens and other birds while ordering culling of thousands of birds following yesterday’s detection of the H7N9 virus among pigeons.