“China has confirmed a new case of the H7N9 bird flu, state media said, the country’s first report since August of human infection with a virus that has so far afflicted 135 people,” Reuters reports. “China’s National Health and Family Planning Commission said 45 people had died from the virus, which was first detected in humans early this year,” the news agency writes, noting the man recently diagnosed is in critical condition. “While there have been only a handful of H7N9 infections during the summer months after a surge in April, flu experts warn that the threat posed by the virus has not passed,” Reuters notes (Martina/Kelland, 10/16).