I haven't been following this story as uch as I should have, but this seems like
a pretty major deal to me.
May 23 (Bloomberg) -- All seven people infected with bird flu in a cluster of Indonesian cases can be linked to other patients, according to disease trackers investigating possible human-to-human transmission of the H5N1 virus.
A team of international experts has been unable to find animals that might have infected the people, the World Health Organization said in a statement today. In one case, a 10-year- old boy who caught the virus from his aunt may have passed it to his father, the first time officials have seen evidence of a three-person chain of infection, an agency spokeswoman said. Six of the seven people have died.
I know we have some resident experts on this issue, and I'm more than happy to defer to them, but I saw the story and no diary, so I'm throwing this out there. How concerned ought we to be at this point? I know the story thus far has been that we hit a danger point at human to human transmission, but like I said above, I've not been following this closely. I'm assuming this is a new development in the situation.
