- Hello, Jeff - The moderator's comments say it all, i.e.
the situation in Turkey regarding human case numbers is different than
in Asia. In Turkey a substantial number of people at two different locations
appear to be suspected cases. 3 siblings die from confirmed bird flu.
This is not good news.
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- Patty
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- From ProMed Mail
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- The situation in Turkey is qualitatively different from
that observed in East Asia where human cases have been sporadic and few
in number in relation to the population at risk. In Turkey a substantial
number of people at two different locations appear to be suspected cases.
- mod.CP
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- Now that official confirmation of the diagnosis of avian
influenza in Turkish patients has been received from WHO, the title of
this thread is being changed to acknowledge the occurrence of human cases
of H5N1 avian influenza virus infection beyond East Asia for the first
time.- Mod.CP
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- WHO Confirms Avian Influenza In Dead Turkish Children
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- 1-6-6
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- ANKARA (Reuters) -- Turkey's Health Ministry said on
Friday [6 Jan 2006] that the World Health Organisation (WHO) had confirmed
that three children who died in the east of the country had contracted
H5N1 avian influenza virus infection.
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- "The test results for the three came back positive...They
have been confirmed by the WHO laboratory," Necdet Unuvar, a senior
health ministry official, told a televised news conference.
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- Turkey - Third Sibling From Same Family Dies Of Avian
Influenza
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- By Benjamin Harvey, Selcan Hacaoglu and Suzan Fraser
1-6-6
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- VAN, Turkey (AP) -- A third child from the same family
died of avian influenza at a hospital within a week in this eastern Turkish
city on Friday, January 6, 2006, doctors said.
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- Health authorities are closely monitoring the H5N1 virus,
fearing it could mutate into a form easily passed between humans and spark
a pandemic killing tens of millions. Birds in Turkey, Romania, Russia and
Croatia have recently tested positive for the deadly H5N1 strain of bird
flu.
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- An 11 year old girl, died only a day after her 15-year-old
sister succumbed to the disease on Thursday [5 Jan 2006]. Their brother,
age 14, died on Sunday [1 Jan 2006]. Preliminary tests on the body of the
boy pointed to a strain [the H5N1 avian influenza virus] scientists fear
could trigger a global human epidemic. Samples from the boy tested positive
by two laboratories in Turkey and specimens were sent to centers in Britain,
where the initial test results could be checked.
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- Guenael Rodier, a special adviser on communicable diseases
at WHO's European headquarters in Copenhagen, Denmark, said Thursday that
they were unlikely dealing with false positives for the deadly H5N1 strain.
A team of officials from the World Health Organization and the Food and
Agriculture Organization were expected to arrive in Turkey on Friday [6
Jan 2006] to assess the situation.
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- Around 25 people were being treated for possible avian
influenza virus infection symptoms at the hospital in Van early Friday,
as authorities from the health and agriculture ministries attempted to
manage more outbreaks across the east of Turkey. New bird flu cases in
fowl were detected in five areas in eastern and southeastern Turkey and
authorities have culled 7000 fowl in those areas, Agriculture Minister
Mehdi Eker said Thursday [5 Jan 2006].
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- In Istanbul, the biggest city in Turkey, authorities
immediately took four pigeons, found dead near a mosque, to a lab for bird
flu tests and sprayed the area with disinfectants, the municipality said
in a statement late Thursday, wwhich the Anatolia news agency reported
early Friday.
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- Dr. Ahmet Faik Oner, who treated the children, said the
youngsters most likely contracted bird flu while playing with dead chickens,
explaining why their parents were not affected. The children reportedly
had tossed chicken heads around like balls inside their house. The siblings
from the eastern town of Dogubayazit were hospitalized last week after
developing high fevers, coughing and bleeding in their throats. According
to reports, the Kocyigit family took their fowl inside the house when temperatures
fell at night and killed and ate the chickens when the [birds became] sick.
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- Most of the sick came from the town of Dogubayazit, around
200 kilometers (120 miles) from Van, the last large town in Turkey before
the Iranian border. Two teenage children from Dogubayazit have died of
bird flu this week. All the patients were being treated at Van 100th Yil
Hospital in the east of the country. Another 25-30 people had come in for
blood tests, received medical care and left, and one was on life support,
the hospital official said. He spoke on condition of anonymity, saying
he wasn't authorized to speak to the press. Other doctors in contact with
patients were not reachable early Friday morning. In October [2005], Turkey
successfully contained an outbreak of the H5N1 virus in the western town
of Kiziksa, after culling more than 10 000 fowl. But in eastern Turkey,
almost every house has fowl and they allow them to go inside their houses
at night, aggravating the problem, according to Eker.
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- The situation in Turkey is qualitatively different from
that observed in East Asia where human cases have been sporadic and few
in number in relation to the population at risk. In Turkey a substantial
number of people at two different locations appear to be suspected cases.
- mod.CP
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- Patricia A. Doyle, DVM, PhD- Bus Admin, Tropical Agricultural
Economics
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