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Health experts have recently been sent to Pakistan to help investigate whether the bird flu was transferred through the contact of humans. Four brothers (two of them died) and two cousins from a small city located about 30 miles north of Islamabad are believed to have gotten this virus. A man and his neice, who were of the same area, had harvested chickens and also gotten the same virus. There was another person in a nearby town called Mansehra who harvested poultry was positive for this disease. Details about this is still confusing for Pakistan's Health Ministry because they reported six people had initially tested positive for the virus last month, while the WHO said that there were eight patients with it. They say the reason why the two are different may be because six were tested using a highly recommended method while the other two were tested with a less reliable one.