THE bird flu epidemic in Asia is “far from being under control”, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization in Bangkok warned this week. Japan and Korea seem to have halted their outbreaks, but China, Thailand and Vietnam have all reported further outbreaks in the past week. The first possible cases of human-to-human infection were also reported in Vietnam this week.
The WHO announced that investigations in Vietnam failed to establish if two women who fell ill after contracting the H5N1 virus had ever come in contact with infected poultry. This means they may have caught the virus from family members…
