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Beijing. >> taken notice of the new strain of bird flu that's affected several people in the southeast of china. they're saying because respiratory illness and a few have died. i want to show you what they believe is the source of the flu strain. they're calling the strain h7n9 believed to be an avian flu. it doesn't mean people can get sick in a place like this where the health standards are very sick and believe it can't be transmitted from human-to-human, but they're mobilizing testing and starting to work on a vaccine. >> translator: the public is concerned about the information regarding ...

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Jon: right. the last two victims are british. but the thinking is that it does spread from human-to-human by droplets through the area. just like a flu or other virus, right? >> it is not as infective as that so it is close contact. people that live in the same house, sharing towels, sharing bed linens. that is why you shouldn't do that. you should disinfect areas in the house. so it's really just the closest contact, whereas so you're not going to see it spreading so much in an office situation. more in a home situation at this point. jon: so the symptoms you say are a lot like the common col...

Next outbreak could be the worst yet. the author joins us this morning. david you've been looking at this issue for a number of years. things like hiv, ebowl last, they actually started in the animal community? >> that's right, jon, yeah. aids, sars, ebola, west nile, fever, hunt at that virus, all of the influenzas, they ultimately come from wildlife and spillover from animal species get into humans and in some cases turn into human pandemics. jon: the sars virus you say is one we were lucky it wasn't worse than it was? >> the sars was a scary one, yes. it was a virus that belongs to a certai...

>> it is dangerous because there is no treatment. if you get a severe pull moan nary infection there is no treatment for it. you have a terminal case of the flu where you have no oxygen going into your lungs, your heart fails and then you die. what makes the story important because this was concentrated in one area that had a lot of exposure to people. as of today i think we're up to the third victim from that specific exposure is. so, you know, and they found the rodents which, you mentioned before. this virus is carried by mice. and rats also, especially field mice. if you get exposed to the...