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Monday, January 09, 2006Preliminary tests showed five more people in Turkey have been infected with the deadly strain of bird flu that already killed two teenage siblings, officials said Monday as Indonesia and China each reported a new case. The new results raise the number of human cases in Turkey to 15, although most have not yet been confirmed by the World Health Organization. However, a WHO official said Turkish patients appear to be catching the disease from infected domestic birds, the normal path of the disease, and not from each other. ....The cases are turning up in Turkish towns and villages hundreds of miles apart, in every section of the country except the west. Turkish officials said they are near wetlands on the paths of migratory birds, which have been carrying the disease from country to country. Keep an eye on Turkey. The virus certainly seems to be infecting people at a higher rate than it has in China and Indonesia. The WHO confirms that the infectious are from birds to human and not human to human: "All the preliminary data and information support the fact that the avian influenza outbreaks in households are in a way very similar to what we've seen in Asia so far. We are talking about family clusters, siblings from the same family - 90 percent children and always with a strong link to infected birds, particularly backyard poultry," Rodier explained. posted by Sydney on 1/09/2006 03:38:00 PM 1 comments 1 Comments:Great blog about Avian Flu. Keep the good job. Also Please visit my blog sometime and post some comment there. thanks! |
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