The experts meeting to decide on whether the case merited issuing a pandemic alert said that although the avian flu virus H5N1 had mutated it still was not easily transmittable among humans.
Indonesian health officials and a chicken in south Jakarta, February 24, 2006. Crack Palinggi/Reuters via Yahoo News.
Indonesian and WHO officials closely monitored 50 people who had come in contact with the family but no new cases developed.
Family members though in the north Sumatra cluster did contract the virus from each other.
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