Human Bird Flu Transmission Proven in Indonesia, UN Agency Says June 23 (Bloomberg) -- Human-to-human transmission was confirmed as the cause of bird flu in one of seven members of an Indonesian family infected with the virus last month, a World Health Organization official said.
Genetic sequencing of a virus sample taken from a 10-year- old boy showed a change that was also found in a virus sample taken from his father, said Dick Thompson, a spokesman for the United Nations health agency in Geneva.
``We have seen a genetic change that confirms in a laboratory that the virus has moved from one human to another,'' Thompson said in an interview today. ``It doesn't mean it's more dangerous, that it transmits more easily or anything like that.''
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