WHO probes possible human transmission of H7N9 bird flu in China
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Beijing - World Health Organization experts have arrived in China to study the spread of H7N9 avian influenza and possible human transmission of the virus, a WHO official said on Friday.
Chinese and international experts suspected human transmission of H7N9 "in very rare caes," Michael O'Leary, WHO's China representative, told reporters.
The WHO team would spend a week in China, travelling to areas where infections were reported and making recommendations to the government, O'Leary said.
The experts would focus on three clusters of infections in eastern China, including a father and two sons, he said.
The two sons of an 87-year-old Shanghai man who died of H7N9 were both treated for severe pneumonia, from which one of them died.
Officials said tests on the sons in early April proved negative for H7N9, but experts are re-examining the three cases for possible human transmission of the virus.//DPA
