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More bird flu deaths in China, Turkey

January 11, 2006 - 4:49PM

The deaths of two more people in China and two in Turkey have brought the global toll from bird flu to 78.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Wednesday called for more countries to prepare in case the disease becomes a pandemic.

Word of the latest two deaths in China - a 10-year-old girl in the south and a 35-year-old man in the east - followed confirmation by WHO of two bird flu fatalities in Turkey, the first outside eastern Asia.

China's Agriculture Ministry meanwhile announced that 16,000 quails died during the first six days of the year in an outbreak in the southwestern city of Guiyang - the country's 28th reported outbreak of the illness in birds since October.

Officials culled an additional 42,000 birds in the city and surrounding areas in Guizhou province, the ministry said on its website.

The WHO's Asian regional director, Shigeru Omi, urged nations to be ready to respond rapidly to any signs of a pandemic.

"Unlike the influenza pandemics of the past, this time the world has been given a warning that one may be on its way," Omi said in a statement.

"We should use this precious time to be ready to counterattack and try to stop any sign of a pandemic in its tracks."

He was attending a two-day meeting in Tokyo scheduled to begin on Thursday, focusing on the need for early detection and early reporting, as well as measures that can be taken if a pandemic strikes.

Participants include China, Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand and South Korea.

Bird flu has swept vast parts of Asia, decimating poultry populations and killing at least 76 people in the region since 2003.

The virus has also spread into parts of Europe, with Turkey reporting at least 15 confirmed human cases and two deaths.

The global toll stood at 78, WHO said on its website.

Most of the human infections have been linked to direct contact with sick poultry.

But experts have warned that the virus could mutate into a form that would be easily transmitted between people, sparking a global flu pandemic that could kill millions.

A 10-year-old girl from China's Guangxi province and a 35-year-old man from Jiangxi province both died last month from complications from the disease, said Roy Wadia, a WHO spokesman in Beijing.

"We've seen that happening in other cases as well, so it's not surprising," Wadia said.

The girl, surnamed Tang, had been sick with a fever and pneumonia since November 23 and underwent emergency treatment, state media has reported.

She died on December 16, Wadia said.

The man, a self-employed vendor, developed the same symptoms on December 4, state media said.

Identified only by his surname, Guo, he had been recovering in the hospital.

He died December 30, Wadia said.

On Monday, China reported that a six-year-old boy in the central province of Hunan - the country's eighth human case - had contracted bird flu late last month and was in critical condition.

The boy, surnamed Ouyang, had contracted the H5N1 virus and began showing symptoms on December 24.

On Tuesday, both the boy's lungs showed damage, the official Xinhua news agency said, quoting Zhu Yimin, president of the Hunan Provincial Children's Hospital.

An investigation found that poultry raised by the boy's family at their home had died before the boy fell ill, the report said.

Two farmers in the central province of Anhui and a factory worker in the southeast province of Fujian - all women - were the other fatalities.

China has said that more cases of human infections are inevitable unless outbreaks among poultry are controlled.

Millions of birds have been slaughtered to help contain its spread.

Health officials are also in the midst of a campaign to inoculate all of the country's 5.2 billion poultry.

Monitoring centres have been set up in all of China's 31 municipalities, provinces and autonomous regions to try and enhance its ability to detect outbreaks - especially in rural areas where there is little knowledge about the virus, Xinhua said.

The Health Ministry is also working to improve the ability of rural medical clinics to detect infections among humans, the news agency said.

This appears to be the fourth child you predicted. in DD2851

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Thanks, will post your link.

Brian

WILLIAM J. KOLE Mon Jan 16, 4:39 PM ET

Experts await test results in Istanbul as bird flu kills 4th child in Turkey

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) - A 12-year-old girl who was hastily buried by torchlight was infected with the H5N1 strain of bird flu, officials said Monday, the fourth Turkish child to die of the disease and the country's 20th human case.

Experts were awaiting the results of tests on three children hospitalized with symptoms in the western city of Istanbul. If it is established that the virus has gained a foothold there, it would bring the illness to the doorstep of Europe.

The latest fatality, Fatma Ozcan, died Sunday in the eastern city of Van but initially had tested negative for H5N1. The Health Ministry ordered new tests after her five-year-old brother, Muhammet, tested positive, and officials said those confirmed she was infected.

Authorities rushed to bury Fatma on Sunday evening, wrapping her in a special body bag to contain any virus after a quick prayer beneath lighted torches at a snowy cemetery. She was from Dogubayazit, the same town where three siblings died of bird flu about 10 days ago, and was bleeding from her mouth and throat when she was brought to the hospital.

Her brother was being treated for fever and a lung infection, officials said.

As of Monday, 11 patients were hospitalized, all but one in stable condition, the ministry said.

In Geneva, Maria Cheng, a

World Health Organization spokeswoman, said the agency accepted the 20 human cases reported by Turkey but was waiting for the results of further tests by a British lab, expected this week, before changing its official toll, which stands at four cases, including two deaths.

Among Turkey's neighbours, Greece's health minister urged Greeks to avoid travelling to Turkey, and

Syria said it had begun disinfecting people and vehicles at border crossings. A legislator in Russia, meanwhile, said his government would fly home more than 8,000 hajj pilgrims who had travelled to Mecca via Turkey to avoid further risk.

The UN Food and Agriculture Organization warned that bird flu might have already arrived in neighbouring countries including Lucida Grande, Armenia,

Iran and Syria and cited other countries, including Moldova, Bulgaria and

Iraq as countries at risk.

"You have to face the fact that the virus is in their neighbourhood," said Samuel Jutzi, who heads the agency's animal health division.

Turkey's agriculture minister, Mehdi Eker, also said the disease had spread, and suggested some countries were concealing it.

"We know for fact that this disease exists in other places, but there are some (countries) that are hiding it," he told private NTV television.

As Turks complaining of symptoms checked into hospitals, there were concerns that the virus might still be spreading despite the precautionary slaughter of 931,000 chickens, geese and turkeys. Health officials said all 20 people with confirmed H5N1 infection appeared to have touched or played with birds.

At least 77 people in Asia have died since the virus surfaced there in 2003, the World Health Organization says. The WHO has been tracking the outbreak closely to determine whether the virus is changing.

Experts are concerned that the virus could mutate into a form that would spread easily among humans, triggering a pandemic capable of killing millions. The WHO has stressed that it has no evidence of person-to-person infection occurring in Turkey.

Prime Minister Recep Tayyip's cabinet met to discuss further measures to combat the outbreak, and authorities on Monday banned the transport of all birds and hoofed animals, except race horses, as a precaution.

1/27/2006

Brian,

Can you see if the bird flu can be picked up by other animals i.e. (dogs & cats) and transmitted?

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Hi, I have had several dreams about this, so I think the answer is yes.

Brian

8.19.2006

H5N1 found in Michigan

Wilma

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Thanks, posted.

Brian

Reuters.com - USDA says Michigan bird flu case no risk to humans

http://today.reuters.com/news/ArticleNews.aspx?type=domesticNews&storyID=2006-08-14T153318Z_01_WBT005769_RTRUKOC_0_US-BIRDFLU-USA.xml

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Thanks, good news...posted.
Brian