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...bird flu cases in rural Indonesia that could represent the first time the H5N1 virus has managed to pass from human to human to human. The cluster likely began with a 37-year-old woman who hosted a family pork roast on April 29 in the Indonesian village of Kubu Sembilang in north Sumatra. The woman had become sick on April 27, and as she worsened, several family members slept in the same small room as she did. By the first week of May six more members of the family had fallen ill with avian flu. The first woman died...
...those contacts remain healthy for the next week and a half, then the outbreak at Kubu Sembilang will likely be judged contained. But the cluster itself could remain a mystery. Villagers have been extremely uncooperative with investigators, complicating efforts to get samples from animals and forcing the WHO to set up its command hub 5 miles from the village. "We don't have a lot of access to the village right now," says Hartl. "But they've lost seven people. There's a lot of shock and grief they have to work through first." It's a reminder...
John V. Fisher, Thomas Gardiner, Richard G. Harris, George W. Helden, John A. Holsbird, Jr., Paul Joretski, George A. Kubu, Jr., Newbold R. London, Francis M. Lee, Carter H. Leslie. Harrison F. Lyman, Jr., Bernard J. McMahon, Jr., Herbert T. McMeekin, Donald S. Miles, John H. Miller, Vern K. Miller, Robert F. Navin...
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