WHO says flu risk assessment unchanged after HK case

Updated as of 11/19/2010 12:53 AM


GENEVA - The World Health Organization said Thursday that it was not changing its risk assessment on avian flu, even though Hong Kong reported its first human case of infection in seven years.
"Our risk assessment has not changed," said Gregory Hartl, spokesman of the WHO.
"This would fit the existing pattern of occasional human infection," he added...