Study confirms limited human-to-human spread of avian-flu virus in Indonesia in 2006

In the first systematic, statistical analysis of its kind, infectious-disease-modeling experts at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center confirm that the avian influenza A (H5N1) virus in 2006 spread between a small number of people within a family in Indonesia. The findings, by biostatistician Ira M. Longini Jr., Ph.D., and colleagues, appear online and will be published in the Sept. 1 print edition of Emerging Infectious Diseases, a journal of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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<p><a href="http://www.physorg.com/news107534305.html">Study confirms limited human-to-human spread of avian-flu virus in Indonesia in 2006</a></p> <p>In the first systematic, statistical analysis of its kind, infectious-disease-modeling experts at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center confirm that the avian influenza A (H5N1) virus in 2006 spread between a small number of people within a family in Indonesia. The findings, by biostatistician Ira M. Longini Jr., Ph.D., and colleagues, appear online and will be published in the Sept. 1 print edition of <i>Emerging Infectious Diseases</i>, a journal of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.</p>