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Experts discuss bird flu

JAKARTA: Some of the world's top experts on bird flu met in Jakarta on Wednesday to discuss the human transmission angle of the largest cluster deaths in Karo, North Sumatra, and to map out a strategy for Indonesia to fight the outbreak. Scientists from the World Health Organisation (WHO), the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (U.S. CDC), European Centre for Disease Control (ECDC) among others, would discuss a strategy to control the avian influenza virus, said a press release issued by Indonesia. The meeting was held a month after Indonesia grappled with the largest bird flu cluster deaths in a remote farming area in Sumatra island and amid the rising number of deaths. — Xinhua.

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