Pakistan has confirmed the first case of transmission of avian influenza from person to person, according to the BBC. Tests, which have from the World Health Organization (WHO) shows that have died as a result of bird flu. Several family members in northwest Pakistan at the end of last year WHO reported that measures were taken to prevent the spread of the H5N1 virus in the region. In the northwest and in the south of Pakistan was an epidemic of bird flu last year. Thousands of birds were burned to prevent the spread of the virus. The claim that the bird flu is spread from person to person comes after it tested samples taken from dead people from the same family in the city of Peshawar in Pakistan. First infection occurred from poultry, then infected the family members to each other with a virus. This is achieved by genetic testing, the WHO representative in Egypt and the USA met confirmed.
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