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	It Gets Around

rfnajera

12-21-2007 11:13 AM

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influenza, flu, bird, avian, china, disease, cdc, who, epidemiology

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WHO was still awaiting final tests results for a recent cluster of cases in the north-west region of Pakistan. The team of WHO experts, who travelled to the area earlier this week, believed though that the first-ever human cases in the country were again a result of intimate contact. </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.thecheers.org/news/Health/news_4573_WHO-Human-to-human-transmission-unclear-in-Chinese-bird-flu-case.html"><DIV>
Heymann, said: "Even if there had been human-to-human transmission, it was limited and did not continue. It was not sustained and it's that which is very important." </DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/3F786893-B009-4843-89FC-46E766CE59CE/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>