Then came evidence, thanks to a series of astonishing discoveries in China's Liaoning province over the past five years, that some dinosaurs may have borne feathers.

Most of them came from the north-eastern province of Liaoning and the capital city of Beijing.

I was born and brought up in northeast Liaoning, and I thought I might encounter difficulties in the heat of Sichuan.

The cases have occurred in 7 provinces and regions: Anhui, Guangxi, Liaoning, Jiangxi, Fujian, Hunan, and Sichuan.

In addition to Hunan, provinces and regions reporting human cases of H5N1 infection include Anhui, Guangxi, Liaoning, Jiangxi, and Fujian.