This is the news none of us wanted to hear:
The World Health Organization (WHO) says limited human-to-human transmission of the H5N1 avian influenza virus may have occurred in Pakistan. But it says the threat of further spread appears to have stopped as no new infections have been reported for two weeks. Lisa Schlein reports for VOA from WHO headquarters in Geneva.
Hospital staff clean and disinfect room in isolation ward where bird flu patient was treated in Abbotabad, Pakistan, 17 Dec 2007
Hospital staff clean and disinfect room in isolation ward where bird flu patient was treated in Abbotabad, Pakistan, 17 Dec 2007
Assistant Director-General of the World Health Organization and top bird flu expert, Doctor David Heymann, says a team of WHO experts has completed an investigation into an outbreak of bird flu in Pakistan. He says tests were carried out among a group of people who became infected with the deadly H5N1 strain of the virus in October.Doctor Heymann says an analysis of the information is not yet complete. But preliminary results indicate there was human-to-human transmission of the virus. He says there could have been a common source of the infection.
