WHO on bird flu in China

BEIJING, China - Keiji Fukuda, assistant director general for health security and environment of the World Health Organization, speaks during a press conference in Beijing on April 22, 2013. The top WHO influenza expert said the Geneva-based organization and Chinese health authorities have yet to see evidence of person-to-person transmission of a new strain of avian influenza that struck in some parts of China.

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