Avian Influenza

Thai bird flu spread is "one-alarm" fire

Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, October 19th, 2004

Health authorities and flu experts say they're concerned but not alarmed by an apparent case of bird flu jumping from one person to another in Thailand. So far it looks like an isolated dead-end incident rather than the start of a major outbreak.

"At the moment I think it's ... a one-alarm fire, not a four-alarm fire," Dr. William Schaffner, a flu expert at Vanderbilt University, said.

Normally, people who get bird flu acquire it from infected birds. But experts fear the bird virus will someday mutate into a form that spreads easily from one person to another, which could set the stage for a worldwide outbreak of deadly flu.

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