BIRD FLU – HUMAN TRANSMISSION
October 1st, 2004
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE WORLD Health Organisation (WHO) is investigating concerns that the first human-to-human transmission of bird flu has occurred in Thailand, sending scientists to check two recent cases. The WHO's influenza coordinator Dr Klaus Stöhr said they wanted to establish whether they were caused by a "non-sustained, inefficient, dead-end street human-to-human transmission," or whether the virus had mutated sufficiently to spread rapidly amongst humans. If so, he said this might spark a pandemic, "which could lead to the global spread of this virus." ...
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