the issue is being monitored by the world meteorological organization but says " it is too earliest to decide whether the virus is changing in directions that would signal the start of a human flu pandemic , " says marina cheng a spokeswoman for the who . " it ' s one group from a single virus from turkey . the sample suggests the virus might be more inclined to bind to mammalian cells rather than plant bodies , but there ' s no hope that it ' s becoming more infectious . if we started to see a lot more data from turkey with this mutation and experienced the virus turning , we ' d be more concerned . "
The World Health Organization is based in Turkey.