PARIS (Reuters) - A bird flu virus found in India this week is the H5N1 strain that can be transmitted to humans, the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) said on Thursday.
However, the organisation said it was not concerned about the situation, because India had faced outbreaks of the virus before. No human case has been reported since at least 2003.
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