the situation is being monitored by the world health organization but says " it is too early to hear whether the outbreak is changing in ways that would signal the onset of a human flu virus , " says maria cheng a spokeswoman for the who . " it ' s one group from a single virus from turkey . the sample indicated the virus should be more disposed to stick to human cells rather than mammal cells , but there ' s no confirmation that it ' s becoming more infectious . if we started to seen a little more cases from istanbul with this mutation and noticed the virus growing , we ' d be more concerned . "
The World Health Organization is based in Turkey.