{{An international team of flu experts will go to China this week to help with investigations into the deadly H7N9 virus, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Tuesday.}}<\/p>\n
Chinese authorities said eight more people were infected with the new strain of avian flu that has killed 14 people among 71 confirmed cases, state news agency Xinhua said. <\/p>\n
The new cases were in the eastern provinces of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, it said.<\/p>\n
No human-to-human spread of the virus has been confirmed.<\/p>\n
“We’re still trying to find out more information about the reservoir (of the virus). From what we know at the moment, the poultry markets have been a focus of attention, but the fact-finding mission will be looking into this as a key target of its research,” WHO spokesman Glenn Thomas told a regular U.N. news briefing in Geneva.<\/p>\n
The team going to China includes four specialists in areas such as emerging viruses, human-to-animal flu viruses and epidemiology, as well as an unspecified number of WHO staff, Thomas said. <\/p>\n
Another WHO spokesman, Gregory Hartl, said it would be made up of eight people in all.<\/p>\n
One of the points the mission wants to investigate is how some people seem to fight off the infection.<\/p>\n
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