Scientists Cite Human Transmission of Bird Flu
From Times Wire Services
A fatally ill Thai girl probably spread deadly bird flu to her relatives last year in what would mark the first documented case of human-to-human transmission of the feared virus, medical investigators said.
But they said there was no evidence that the H5N1 bird flu virus, which infected 44 people in Asia and killed 32 of them last year, had found a more efficient way to infect humans.
The report was due to be published later this week in the New England Journal of Medicine.
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