WHO not considering raising bird flu alert

GENEVA, May 26 (Reuters) The World Health Organisation (WHO) is not considering raising its global bird flu alert, although its investigation into a family cluster in Indonesia continues, a senior WHO official said today.

Paul Gully, senior adviser to WHO's top bird flu official Margaret Chan, told Reuters in an interview in Geneva: ''Our feeling now is there is nothing new that has happened which would make us want to consider moving to level four.'' The United Nations agency currently rates the level of pandemic threat at three on a scale of six, meaning some very limited human-to-human transmission has occurred. Level four would signal evidence of increased human-to-human transmission.

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