# 624
Not really a surprise. As I stated yesterday, the bar is set very high when trying to determine H2H (human to human) transmission.
No human transmission in Egypt bird flu case: WHO
GENEVA (Reuters) - Egyptian health authorities excluded the possibility of human to human transmission in the case of a brother and sister with bird flu, the World Health (WHO) said on Tuesday.
A four-year-old boy, from Qena province around 670 km (400 miles) south of Cairo, was among three human cases announced by the health ministry at the weekend. His six-year-old sister was one of two children diagnosed with the virus late last week.
"We have heard from the Ministry of Health that human to human transmission has been ruled out," WHO spokesman Greg Hartl told Reuters.
Both of the children had been exposed to poultry infected with the H5N1 virus, the most common way in which bird flu has been spreading.
In all, five Egyptian children have been reported as being in hospital in stable condition. "Egypt has an extremely good record of child survival of H5N1," Hartl added.
Local Egyptian media had reported last week that several other family members, and a 17 year-old neighbor, were also hospitalized with `flu like' symptoms.
So far, there has been no word on their condition, or testing.
