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JAKARTA - Indonesia on Monday rejected a study by researchers from the United States that concluded that the bird flu virus had spread from person to person during one outbreak in 2006. Indonesia said it was misleading.
An analysis published last week in the U.S. journal Emerging Infectious Diseases said it found statistical evidence of a human-to-human transmission in a cluster of bird flu patients on the island of Sumatra, where eight members of one family died in May 2006.
Indonesia's Health Minister Siti Fadillah Supari said the research findings had "misled the public".
"It's pure logic... If there had been human-to-human transmission, it would have already swept the country and killed thousands," Supari told a at a news conference. "Our scientists have already determined that the 2006 outbreak on North Sumatra was not a case of human-to-human transmission."
Researcher Ira Longini and colleagues at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, who have examined two separate clusters of bird flu cases, said they had developed a tool to run quick tests on outbreaks of the disease to see if a dangerous epidemic or pandemic was developing.
"We find statistical evidence of human-to-human transmission in Sumatra, but not in Turkey," they wrote in a report published in the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases on the two clusters studied.
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