China's health authority confirmed on Thursday that the latest human case of bird flu in the eastern province of Jiangsu came from close contact with his ill son instead of a mutated human-to-human virus.
"It has no biological features for human-to-human transmission," said Mao Qun'an, Health Ministry spokesman.
An epidemiological investigation showed the father was infected through close contact with his son who died from the H5N1 bird flu strain in Nanjing, the provincial capital.
Neither had been found to be in contact with dead poultry, Mao said, adding the bird flu cases in Nanjing had been effectively contained.
Source: Xinhua
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