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N 9. people don't have to remember the numbers, but it's not the same bird flu we talk about about ten years ago. it's a different type of bird flu, one that's showing up this year. of those people, about 43 people have died. now, two of the people are -- this father and this daughter. we know that the father interacted with the poultry, but the daughter never did, and she still got infected. so they genetically tested the virus and found it did in fact spread from father to daughter. so it's a documented case of human transmission. that's what people are looking for. let me point out, wolf. t...

Twitter over the past several months for news and information. martha: yeah. bill: what do you think when you see that? i mean i had a trader call me yesterday, is this true? i stayed what are you talking about? bomb at the white house? right after that it was pulled back. martha: breaking news next to it. that's a huge head's up. we got to figure a way to make sure that doesn't happen again. bill: 13 minutes after the hour. we're just getting rolling. new concerns about a new bird flu. concerns it could be passed human-to-human. we'll update you in a moment. martha: the budget cuts forcing lo...

>> shepard: good to see you, doc. thank you. >> thank you. >> shepard: a deadly strain of bird flu has killed another person in china. concerning a lot of people. they also report it's infected two more people. here in the united states, u.s. health officials say they're monitoring the strain, making vaccine just in case. so far 11 people died of the new strain of bird flu. and the most important thing of all of this, as is always the case with bird flu, they haven't been able to see that it's transferred from human to human. from bird to how human has not happened. human to human, there are r...

Against the possibility they might need a pandemic vaccine. this is very unlikely because this kind of a bird flu we're talking about doesn't typically cause pandemics. usually h1s, h2s. this is h7n9. what does that mean. h is the protein on the surface of the flu we use to identify it that helps the flu spread. this is a bird flu. before it can spread easily from human to time, it would have to change. even though it has been found in 14 humans and killed six in china it is not spreading from human-to-human. and that is very good thing. even if it were to do that, how easily, how many humans ...

Country. empatients developed severe respiratory infections and three of those patients have died, bill. bill: jonathan, you are down there and speak with people it the cdc every day. are they seeing something new in this that is bringing it to a higher level or seeing some of this before? >> reporter: they're always interested whenever they see a new strain because that's their job, 24/7 monitor these types of emerging infections. while it appears the virus can spread pro birds to humans, it does not appear to spread easily from human-to-human. for some perspective, hear straight from the cdc...