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Article: Bird flu virus in Indonesia not transmitted via humans: WHO official
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- May 31, 2006
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Bird flu virus in Indonesia not transmitted via humans: WHO
official
JAKARTA, May 31 (Xinhua) -- The Avian Influenza (AI) virus in
Indonesia has so far not mutated into a variety that is transmitted
from human to human, an official of the World Health Organization
(WHO) said here Wednesday.
"According to the information we now have, there has been no
significant mutation or reassortment in the virus," The Antara news
agency quoted Firdusi Mehta, coordinator of WHO's Communicable
Disease Control (CDC) unit, as saying.
He said the virus that had infected victims in Indonesia so far
still had the same type, namely the influenza A type with sub H5N1
strain of virus type, which originated in ...