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...This latest outbreak confirms that no country is immune to H5N1. Every country is at risk. Every country must prepare." DR. LEE JONG-WOOK, World Health Organization director general, in a statement to the media following reports that tens of thousands of poultry had died of avian flu in northern Nigeria, marking the first time the virus has been found in Africa...
...Confirmed cases worldwide of humans infected by the H5N1 strain of the bird-flu virus; 80 people have died...
...seen nothing to indicate that the Turkish victims contracted bird flu from other people, the potential nightmare that could lead to a pandemic. Virologists at the National Institute for Medical Research (nimr) in London, which is home to the World Influenza Centre, analyzed the sequence of genes in the h5n1 virus that killed the Kocyigits. They found the structure of those genes was very similar to that found in the avian version. But nimr director and influenza expert John Skehel says he has also found a worrisome protein change in one of the human genetic sequences. "That mutation makes...
...million birds have been killed by the virus or culled, while 22 people have been infected and 14 have died. But an ambitious and wide-ranging national response has drastically reduced both avian and human cases since the peak of the outbreak in the autumn of 2004. As H5N1 spreads to Europe's doorstep, learning from Thailand's methods could help other countries keep the disease under control. Step 1 is early detection. Many of Thailand's 250 million chickens live in small household farms scattered throughout the country. Official surveillance could easily miss those birds, but a broad network...
Anxiety about avian flu is spreading far faster than the disease. Watch enough reports on television about the outbreaks in Turkey, and you could worry yourself sick. In my opinion, the anxiety is unfounded. ? At the moment, the H5N1 influenza virus is mainly a threat to birds. The virus can infect and kill other animals but only if they have close contact with infected birds. The big concern is that it will gain the ability to pass easily from person to person, possibly by exchanging genes with an ordinary flu virus in the body of some unlucky person infected...