This is my first attempt at posting a diary so I ask your kind indulgence and apologise in advance if this has been posted elswhere. The husband of a coworker of mine recently took a business trip to Taiwan and mainland China. Soon after the plane departed the U.S., flight attendants passed out a leaflet in English and Chinese entitled, "Notification of Health Self-Management for Arriving Passengers".
The first line reads as follows:"World Heald Organization has issued an alert to announce that limited human-to-human transmission of avian influenza has occured. In order to ensure the health and safety of you and your family, pleas adopt the following measures of health self-managment during your first ten days of arrival." A list of recommended precautions etc. to prevent contamination or transmission of the disease follows.
If the WHO is saying that human to human transmission has taken place, even if "limited", that strikes me as a rather significant development, yet I have heard nothing in the press. I'm no expert in Public Health matters so I am wondering if anyone else out there in Kos land has heard of this development. A search of Google and related bird flu sites had nothing specific to this, although it is clear from web stories that the disease is appearing in more and more places, e.g. the Crimea, Cyprus, and Korea.