Date: 06/26/06 (Java Web)    Keywords: virus

A World Health Organization probe revealed that the bird flu virus mutated within an Indonesian family. An Indonesian man who died from the H5N1 strain of bird flu almost certainly caught the disease from his 10-year-old son. He is the first laboratory-confirmed case of human-to-human transmission of the H5N1 strain. Bird Flu virus infected eight members [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/human-to-human-bird-flu-transmission-confirmed-by-who/