Apr 19, 2013
Bangkok Post
The World Health Organisation (WHO) says there
is no evidence that a new strain of bird flu in China is spreading
easily among humans, even though a few people who were close to patients
with the virus have fallen sick.
O'Leary said a major focus of the mission is to learn how the virus infects humans.
The experts will also study a few "clusters" of confirmed and potential infections that have emerged in the past three weeks though he said there has been no evidence of sustained human-to-human transmission.
This Monday, April 15, 2013 electron microscope image provided by the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows the H7N9 virus which
can take on a variety of shapes. Almost three weeks after China reported
finding a new strain of bird flu in humans, experts are still stumped
by how people are becoming infected when many appear to have had no
recent contact with live fowl and the virus isn't supposed to pass from
person to person. Understanding how the H7N9 bird flu virus is spreading
is a goal of international and Chinese experts assembled by the World
Health Organization as they begin a weeklong investigation Friday, April
18, 2013. (AP Photo/CDC, C.S. Goldsmith, T. Rowe)
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