The Ministry of Health stated that laboratory and clinical tests of all workers associated with birds inflicted with the avian influenza (bird flu) virus in Alkharj province were negative to the H5N1 virus and no human cases were reported. The ministry said it has a remedy and preventive plan according to which it will work if human cases were reported, God forbid. The ministry explained that the H5N1 virus basically inflicts birds and poultry and might infect humans rarely through direct contact. Combating and preventing the disease basically depends on preventing it among birds and poultry and infection from a human being to another has never happened until now.
