JAKARTA (Reuters) - An Indonesian who died of bird flu after nursing his sick son may have caught the virus in a case of direct human-to-human transmission, the World Health Organization said on Tuesday.
WHO gave its first details of the case of a family cluster of H5N1 avian influenza infections in which six people have now died, and said it was still looking for the source of the outbreak. If it was a case of human-to-human transmission, the virus has not spread very far, it emphasized.
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