PARIS (Reuters) - More should be done to control the spread of bird flu among animals to avoid more cases in humans, the World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH) said on Wednesday, following the first death of a patient from the virus in the United States.

The World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH) emphasizes the need for increased measures to control bird flu spread among animals to prevent human cases. WOAH's Director General, Emmanuelle Soubeyran,

The experiment of whether H5 can ever be successful in human populations is happening before our eyes,” Seema Lakdawala, a flu virologist at Emory University, told me. “And we are doing nothing to stop it.