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<!-- endnoindex -->The World Health Organisation (WHO) says it is likely that bird flu was transmitted from human to human in Indonesia.
An American university has used statistical analysis to argue that the H5N1 virus in May 2006 was transmitted between eight family members in Sumatra.
Indonesia's health minister, Siti Fadilah Supari, strongly denied the claims during a press conference on Monday.
The WHO has long warned that if the virus mutates into a form that is easily spread between humans, it could trigger a global pandemic.
The WHO's assistant director for communicable diseases, David Heymann, says that hasn't occurred, and the current pandemic alert level allows for occasional transmission from person to person.
He told Radio Australia it is likely that close contact between the family members in Sumatra allowed the virus to transmit.
"Well in this instance it's likely that it was droplets from a cough or some kind of close contact, even saliva having been contaminated from one to the other," he said. <!-- PRINT_CONTENT_END -->
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<!-- endnoindex -->The World Health Organisation (WHO) says it is likely that bird flu was transmitted from human to human in Indonesia.
An American university has used statistical analysis to argue that the H5N1 virus in May 2006 was transmitted between eight family members in Sumatra.
Indonesia's health minister, Siti Fadilah Supari, strongly denied the claims during a press conference on Monday.
The WHO has long warned that if the virus mutates into a form that is easily spread between humans, it could trigger a global pandemic.
The WHO's assistant director for communicable diseases, David Heymann, says that hasn't occurred, and the current pandemic alert level allows for occasional transmission from person to person.
He told Radio Australia it is likely that close contact between the family members in Sumatra allowed the virus to transmit.
"Well in this instance it's likely that it was droplets from a cough or some kind of close contact, even saliva having been contaminated from one to the other," he said. <!-- PRINT_CONTENT_END -->
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