Indonesia: More Bird Flu Deaths
An Associated Press story in The Wall Street Journal states that Indonesia has reported two more deaths from bird flu.
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The H5N1 virus has killed at least 64 people in Asia since 2003, two-thirds of them in Vietnam.
However, WHO spokeswoman Maria Cheng in Geneva said the Chinese cases don’t increase the risk of a flu pandemic because no major virus mutations have occurred and there’s been no apparent spread between people.
Health experts worry the virus, which is currently hard for people to catch, will alter into a form easily passed from person to person, possibly igniting a global flu pandemic that kills millions. So far, most human cases have been traced to contact with infected birds.