I'm not sure we've seen a cluster like this in terms of numbers and certainly it's a concern. Is the virus being transmitted more easily from birds to humans, or even from humans to humans? We need to put all the pieces together before we can come to conclusions.

The laboratory in the U.K. said that they have detected H5N1 in samples from the two fatal cases.

So far it looks like the same pattern.

Any attempt to strengthen the surveillance worldwide for H5N1 is a good plan.

According to our Eastern Mediterranean office, it's been dismissed as a case ... they got back to us that it was not avian influenza.

According to our Eastern Mediterranean office, ... it was not avian influenza.

There is one confirmed case, the girl, and three suspect cases under investigation who have died. They include her uncle, the boy in the south and another case.

The more chances H5N1 has to infect people, the more chances it has to evolve into a form that could spark a pandemic. And the place we're seeing the most human infections right now is Indonesia.

Right now these new cases in Turkey, they don't elevate the global risk assessment, so we're still in the same pandemic alert phase that we've been in for the last couple of years. But it's something that needs to be monitored very closely.

These are all cases that have already been announced (by Turkish authorities).