China Health Ministry 'puzzled' by bird flu cases

'We see the result, but not the cause. We don't know where it has come from, but people have been infected. When people are infected, in theory it should be present in birds.'

China Health Ministry 'puzzled' by bird flu cases 10 Feb 2009
http://in.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idINIndia-37941720090210

China's Health Ministry is puzzled by eight human cases of bird flu in January which appeared independent of any known case in birds, a spokesman said on Tuesday. Five Chinese died from H5N1 in January in far-flung regions without any reported presence of the virus in birds on the mainland. "We see the result, but not the cause. We don't know where it has come from, but people have been infected. When people are infected, in theory it should be present in birds," spokesman Mao Qunan told reporters.

[See: Indonesia accuses US of bird flu plot 20 Feb 2008
The Indonesian Health Minister has said the United States and the World Health Organisation are part of a global conspiracy to profit from the spread of bird flu and the US may use samples to produce biological weapons.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/indonesia-accuses-us-of-bird-flu-plot/2008/02/19/1203190823829.html

See: Fort Detrick Freezes Research on Dangerous Pathogens As Lab Can't Account For Them
07 Feb 2009. http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/02/us-army-lab-fre-1.html

See: Flu 'Oddities' http://www.legitgov.org/flu_oddities.html