Bird Flu Monitor: Indonesia Dismisses Fears over Reassortment of Human/Avian Flu Viruses

Bird Flu Monitor > Indonesia Dismisses Fears over Reassortment of Human/Avian Flu Viruses

[A1A South] JAKARTA, March 20 (Xinhua) — Indonesia dismissed fears of a virus re-assortment between avian and human seasonal influenza strains in a 2007 human death involving bird flu infection, the country’s health ministry senior official said here. Director General of Communicable Diseases I Nyoman Kandun said the possibility of re-assortment between the avian influenza virus and other flu viruses was always possible, but had not yet happened.

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