“Vietnam and Cambodia confirmed new human deaths from bird flu this week.
“The two victims, an 18-year-old Vietnamese man and a two-year-old Cambodian boy, caught the lethal virus, also known as H5N1, from poultry — not from contact with infected people, according to the Associated Press.
“But the news, along with announcements from the World Health Organization that Egypt and Indonesia also have reported new H5N1 cases, is a reminder of recent worries that bird flu may be able to mutate so that it is able to pass from human to human through the air, in the droplets produced by an infected person’s cough or a sneeze.” —
