- (Reuters) -- Health authorities in Azerbaijan are treating
a 14-year-old boy for suspected bird flu, the Health Ministry said on Thu
25 Jan 2007. The boy's sister was one of 5 people who died last year [2006]
in an outbreak of H5N1 bird flu in the former Soviet republic between Turkey
and Russia, the Ministry said. "It is too early to speak of an exact
diagnosis. The boy's blood sample has been sent for analysis to a laboratory
in London and is also being analyzed in Baku," said a Health Ministry
official who did not want to be named. The boy is being treated in a respiratory
illness institute in the capital, Baku. The previous outbreak began last
spring [2006].
-
- The boy now in hospital is from the southern region of
Salyan, which was one of 2 centers of last year's (2006) outbreak. WHO
experts traced the infection then to local people plucking migratory birds
to use their feathers. It said the outbreak was contained, and since April
last year [2006], there have been no confirmed cases in Azerbaijan.
-
- -- ProMED-mail
-
-
- Patricia A. Doyle DVM, PhD
- Bus Admin, Tropical Agricultural Economics
- Univ of West Indies
-
-
- Please visit my "Emerging Diseases" message
board at:
- http://www.emergingdisease.org/phpbb/index.php
- Also my new website:
- http://drpdoyle.tripod.com/
- Zhan le Devlesa tai sastimasa
- Go with God and in Good Health
|
