Worried that Asia's bird flu outbreak could be on the verge of spreading worldwide, increasing the risk of a human pandemic, international health organizations are warning that China is not rigorously following up on a recent outbreak of the deadly H5N1 strain among wild birds in the western Qinghai region. In particular, the World Health Organization (WHO) is pressing Chinese officials to study migratory birds to see whether they may be able to spread the virus to previously unaffected areas. Chinese scientists point out that they have already sequenced virus from migratory birds and made the results publicly available through GenBank.
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