A Hospital Employee Broke The H7N9 Bird Flu News Over China's Twitter

The story of the first death from China's new bird flu, dubbed H7N9, was broken by an employee at China's Hospital No. 5, in Shanghai, over China's twitter-like social network Weibo. The employee seemed to be upset because they were not provided with personal protective equipment, like masks, to ensure they did not catch the mystery disease. From Laurie Garrett's feature story about the flu in Foreign Policy: And on March 6, someone posted on Weibo, "Ask the hospital to tell the truth." The anon...