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Starting in the spring of 2013, and continuing for the next 4 years, China was embroiled in an LPAI H7N9 epidemic ( see chart below) , which unlike H5, produced little or no illness in birds, but could be deadly in humans.
Being asymptomatic in poultry, it made control ( and human avoidance) of the virus difficult.