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No new bird flu infections in humans reported
Limited human-to-human bird flu transmission may have occurred in Pakistan, but no new infections have been reported for two weeks, a top World Health Organisation official said yesterday.
- AP
- Published: 00:23 December 22, 2007
Geneva: Limited human-to-human bird flu transmission may have occurred in Pakistan, but no new infections have been reported for two weeks, a top World Health Organisation official said on Friday.
A WHO team has finished their initial investigation in Pakistan after up to nine patients, including several family members, were suspected of being infected with the H5N1 bird flu virus in areas north of Islamabad.
The experts were expected back in Geneva to begin piecing together how the virus may have spread, but they found no evidence of anyone currently sickened by the virus, said Dr David Heymann, WHO's top flu official in Geneva.
"I think the team right now feels on initial analysis that this might be a small chain of human-to-human, non-sustained transmission," he said, stressing that there was no cause for alarm.
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