Despite mixed results in finding drugs to fight the H7N9 Bird Flu, China is reporting new infections and new fatalities.  Twenty people have now died from the disease that until a couple of weeks ago, had never been seen in humans.

The latest deaths are an elderly farmer and a 62-year old woman from east China's Zhejiang Province, about 150 kilometers from Shanghai where the trouble was first detected, but the hardest-hit area.

The total number of known infections has risen to 101 patients in China, so far all in the east.

As increasingly urbanized Chinese grow more concerned about the bird flu, authorities are dealing with some irrational responses.  One tale describes a motorist on a highway in Zhejiang province becoming so panicked by bird droppings landing on her windshield that she stops the car and calls police for help.

Farmers are culling their poultry flocks, some under orders and some out of fear.

And business at China’s 5 thousand KFC restaurants dropped 16 percent during the month of March when this all started.

Beijing would like to keep a lid on this as much as possible, after losing as much as $80 Billion in trade over the SARS panic of 2003.