the strain is being monitored by the world health organization but says " it is too young to know what the virus is changing in states that should signaled the start of a recent flu pandemic , " says barbara cheng a spokeswoman for the who . " it ' s one isolate from a single virus from turkey . the sample suggests the disease might be more inclined to bind to human cells rather than animal cells , but there ' s no evidence that it ' s getting more infectious . if we started to get a lot more people from turkey with this mutation and saw the viral changing , we ' d be more worried . "
The World Health Organization is based in Turkey.