New flu virus in US not spread from human to human – Onishchenko

MOSCOW. November 12. KAZINFORM The new flu virus reported in the United States, a kind of modified AH3N2, is not spread from a human to a human, Gennady Onishchenko, chief of the Russian federal public health control agency (Rospotrebnadzor), told a press conference on Friday, Kainform refers to Itar-Tass.

Fortunately, the "mutant" cannot be transferred from a human being to another human being, he assured.

Two cases have been reported in the United States -- a 46-year-old adult and a seven-month child.

The mutated virus consists of three "pieces" of various flu viruses. It already had come from a human to an animal and returned to a human again, Kazinform cites Itar-Tass. See www.itar-tass.com