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Title: No sign of human transmission in new bird flu appearance: WHO
Post by: riky on April 02, 2013, 09:00:18 AM
No sign of human transmission in new bird flu appearance: WHO

BEIJING (Reuters) - The World Health Organization says no evidence has emerged to show that a type of bird flu which has killed two Chinese men can be transmitted between people. Two men in Shanghai, aged 87 and 27, fell sick in late February. A woman in Anhui province also contracted the virus in early March and is in critical condition. "At this point, these three are isolated cases with no evidence of human-to-human transmission", the WHO representative in China, Dr. Michael O'Leary, told reporters on Monday. ...

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