Doctor in China says 4-year-old boy recovers from H7N9 bird flu

A 4-year-old boy has recovered from a new strain of bird flu that has killed nine people in China, a doctor said Wednesday, as the country’s premier said the outbreak was under control. The child from Shanghai is among 33 people confirmed to have been infected with the H7N9 virus. The official Xinhua News Agency said he was the first to completely recover and be discharged from a hospital. A doctor at the Infectious Disease Department of the Pediatric Hospital affiliated with Shanghai’s Fudan University confirmed the boy had recovered and left the hospital, but said she didn’t know if it was the first recovery from H7N9. She refused to give her name, as Chinese officials often do. Five new cases of H7N9 infection were reported on Wednesday. Two of those were in Shanghai, two in Jiangsu province, and one in Zhejiang province, according to the websites of the provincial and city health...