Human spread of bird flu limited
The World Health Organization confirmed a single case of human-to-human transmission of the H5N1 bird flu virus in a family in Pakistan, but said there was no apparent risk of it spreading wider.
It said a team invited to Pakistan to look into an outbreak involving up to nine people from late October to Dec. 6 had found no evidence of sustained or community human-to-human transmission. All but the one brother who died have recovered.
It was the first human-to-human H5N1 transmission in Pakistan. Cases have been confirmed in Indonesia and Thailand in similar circumstances of what the WHO calls close contacts in a very circumscribed area.
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