WHO has published an update to Influenza at human-animal interface - Monthly Risk Assessment Summary. It's a PDF providing considerable background information as well as very sketchy details on two human cases in December: A two-year-old in Egypt who survived, and the four-year-old in Indonesia who died. On first impression, this form of coverage is not as informative as the previous reports.
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December 18, 2012
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