Human To Human Cases Of Bird Flu Cause Quarantine

The other day it was reported that there has been a spread of bird flu between humans in Indonesia. Now 30 people have been quarantined and are being monitored by the W.H.O.

(AFP/Yahoo)"The focus right now is contact tracing, identifying those people who may have been in contact with this cluster," Thompson told AFP by telephone.

"We will monitor their health and encourage them to self-quarantine themselves."
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"From what we see it takes very close and maybe prolonged contact with a sick individual," he said.

Thompson said that while Indonesia's cluster was the biggest so far, there had been "maybe four to five" close-contact infections since the latest outbreak of bird flu in late 2003. Since then 124 people in nine countries worldwide have died, 33 of them in Indonesia.