Bird flu outbreak in Turkey can be controlled: WHO

The bird flu outbreak in Turkey, which local officials say has infected 15 people and killed 3, can be “relatively easily” controlled, a senior World Health Organisation official said on Tuesday.

Speaking by telephone from Ankara, the leader of a WHO team sent to investigate, Guenael Rodier, said: “I have a sense that what is going on in Turkey can be brought under control relatively easily.”

Another senior WHO official also told the same news conference that genetic testing on virus samples taken from both human cases and animals showed them to be very similar, pointing to poultry being the source.

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