Mutated bird flu virus ‘nothing remarkable’

A WORLD Health Organisation investigation has found that the deadly bird flu virus has mutated slightly in an Indonesian family cluster on Sumatra island.

However, bird flu experts insisted it did not increase the possibility of a human pandemic.

The H5N1 virus that infected eight members of a family last month – killing seven of them – appears to have slightly mutated in a 10-year-old boy, who was then suspected of passing the virus to his father, the report said.