No poultry contact in some Chinese bird flu cases : WHO

By Stephanie Nebehay and Sui-Lee Wee GENEVA/BEIJING (Reuters) – The World Health Organization said on Wednesday that a number of people who have tested positive for a new strain of bird flu in China appear to have had no contact with poultry, adding to the mystery about a virus that has killed 17 people to date. Chinese authorities have slaughtered thousands of birds and closed some live poultry markets to try to slow the rate of human infection, but many questions remain unsolved, including whether the H7N9 strain is being transmitted between people. …