H5N1 Continues to Kill

摘要

Even as controversy over a lab-created strain of the H5N1 bird flu virus rages, outbreaks of the natural strain continue in poultry in much of south and southeast Asia-and the human death toll is mounting. Since the beginning of the year, the virus has killed individuals in Cambodia, China, Indonesia, and Vietnam, and there has been a case of human infection in Egypt, according to the World Health Organization (WHO) and local press accounts. WHO reports that most of the recent human cases can be traced to contact with sick birds.