Naeema al-Gasseer, the WHO
representative in Iraq, said blood samples from seven
people suspected of carrying the deadly H5N1 virus have
been sent to Cairo for analysis.A 15-year-old
girl from Kurdistan died in January of the H5N1 virus,
which in the past three years has killed more than 80
people, mostly in Asia.
An eight-member team of WHO experts arrived on 5
February in Irbil, the main city of the Kurdistan
region, to assess the situation.
