On Wednesday, Indonesia's Health Minister Siti Fadillah Supari told reporters 38-year-old Iwan Siswara Rafei and his 9-year-old and 1-year-old daughters died from the H5N1 avian flu virus, bringing Asia's toll from the disease to 57.
The World Health Organization has long warned that a new, more deadly strain of the virus could mutate, allowing human-to-human transmission, but Supari downplayed those fears.
"It's confirmed. They died of the conventional bird flu virus strain, which does not transmit from humans to humans," she said.
The news article is from CNN.com, here is an earlier post on this case.