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A man in Taiwan has been diagnosed with H7N9 bird flu and is critically ill with the first case of the disease found outside of mainland China. The 53-year-old Taiwanese man had been working in the Chinese city of Suzhou from the end of March to April 9, and began feeling feverish shortly after he returned home via Shanghai, according to a statement from Taiwan’s health department.一名台湾男子人被确诊患有H7N9禽流感，目前病情严重，这是中国大陆以外首例确诊病例。　台湾卫生署发布的一份声明称，从3月底到4月9日，这名53岁的台湾人在苏州工作。在经过上海回台之后很快就开始感觉发热。
News that the disease has been found in travellers who had been in China comes as experts are watching closely for signs that the disease can be transmitted from person to person. “This is an unusually dangerous virus for humans, one of the most lethal influenza viruses we have seen so far,” said Keiji Fukuda, a World Health Organisation official, at a briefing Wednesday in Beijing. He cautioned that researchers are still “at the beginning of understanding this virus.” People also appear to catch the disease from birds more easily than other variants of bird flu, according to the organisation.前往中国出差的境外人士患病的消息传出之际，专家正在密切专注这种疾病能够人传人的迹象。世界卫生组织(WHO)官员福田敬二(Keiji Fukuda)周三在北京的一次通报会上说：“这是对人类异常危险的一种病毒，是我们迄今见过的致命性最强的流感病毒之一。”他告诫称，研究人员还在“理解这种病毒的初始阶段”。WHO还指出，相比其它禽流感变体，人类似乎更容易从禽类感染这种病毒。
So far, the WHO says, it does not seem to be transmitted easily between people. However, Chinese authorities last week said they were investigating evidence of infections in some families to see whether the disease has spread from person to person.WHO表示，迄今为止，该病毒似乎还不容易人传人。然而，上周中国当局表示，正在调查一些家庭内传染的证据，以判断这种疾病已经出现人传人。
Taiwan has been particularly alert to spread of avian flu, as hundreds of thousands of Taiwanese businesspeople and Chinese tourists travel back and forth across the strait each month. The region of Suzhou, where the man had been travelling when he became ill, hosts a large number of factories owned by Taiwanese companies. The patient in Taiwan told doctors that he had not had been in contact with live or uncooked birds or eggs. Taiwan authorities say they have notified and will be monitoring those people whom the patient came in contact with.台湾对禽流感的传播保持着高度警惕，因为每月有数十万台湾商人和大陆游客往返海峡两岸。这名台湾人患病之前所在的苏州地区有很多台资工厂。这位台湾患者告诉医生，他并没有禽鸟接触史，也没有食用未熟禽类或蛋品。台湾有关部门表示，已经通知并追踪这名患者曾经接触的人。
The virus has infected 108 people and killed 22 in mainland China as of Tuesday, according to authorities there.中国有关部门称，截止周二，该病毒已经在中国大陆感染108人，死亡22人。

Asia is witnessing one of the strongest waves of physical gold buying in 30 years, with bargain-hunters using the drop in prices to secure jewellery and gold bars. Feverish buying has left many of Hong Kong’s banks, jewellers and even its gold exchange without enough yellow metal to meet demand. In Shanghai, the gold exchange saw volumes – often seen as a proxy for demand – at a record yesterday. Queues formed outside some jewellery shops in Beijing.亚洲正在见证30年来最强劲的实物黄金购买潮之一，逢低买进者趁金价下跌之际购买黄金首饰和金条。狂热的购买让香港的许多银行、珠宝店甚至黄金交易所断货。上海黄金交易所的交易规模（往往被视为需求的晴雨表）昨日创下新纪录。北京部分珠宝店外面排起了长队。
The buying surge in China, Hong Kong, India and other Asian countries contrasts with heavy selling last week, when investors dumped billions of dollars of gold-related assets. The strong Asian buying has provided support for global gold prices. Yesterday the cost of the metal rose to $1,438.66 a troy ounce, up from 8.1 per cent from the low set last week.Haywood Cheung, president of the Hong Kong Gold and Silver Exchange Society, said the exchange had effectively run out of most of its holdings as members looked to meet a shortfall in supply amid rampant retail demand for gold.与中国、香港、印度以及其他亚洲国家的购买狂潮形成对比的是，上周黄金遭遇抛售狂潮，当时投资者大举抛售黄金相关资产。强劲的亚洲买盘为国际金价提供了支持。昨日金价上涨至每盎司1438.66美元，较上周的低点上涨8.1%。香港金银业贸易场(Hong Kong Gold and Silver Exchange Society)理事长张德熙(Haywood Cheung)表示，贸易场的大部分储备实际上已经耗尽，会员单位正设法解决零售需求高涨所造成的供应短缺。
Gold traders in Asia said premiums – price paid for a particular product over and above the value of the gold it contains – which are seen as a barometer of physical demand, had more than doubled in recent days.Chow Tai Fook – the Hong Kong-based company that is the world’s biggest jeweller by market capitalisation – said some stores in areas popular with mainland Chinese tourists had sold out of gold bars.亚洲的黄金交易员表示，被视为实物黄金需求晴雨表的黄金溢价（为某件产品支付的超过其所含黄金之价值的那部分价格）最近几日上涨逾一倍。全球市值最大的珠宝商、总部位于香港的周大福(Chow Tai Fook)表示，在中国内地光顾最多的地区的部分门店，金条已经售罄。
It said demand had not been this strong for gold products since the late 1980s.周大福表示，自上世纪80年代末以来，对黄金产品的需求从未这样强劲过。
China is the world’s second-largest gold buyer after India. At Beijing’s largest gold store Caibai a long queue formed to buy investment-grade bullion on Friday morning.Trading volume on the Shanghai gold exchange jumped to a record high yesterday, reaching 43 metric tonnes, said Bloomberg data. The previous record, set on April 19, was 30.4 metric tonnes. 中国是全球第二大黄金买家，仅次于印度。上周五早上，在北京最大的金店菜百(Caibai)，购买投资级金条的人们排起了长队。彭博(Bloomberg)数据显示，上海黄金交易所的交易量昨日飙升至创纪录水平，达到43吨。上一次的纪录30.4吨是在今年4月19日创出的。