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...children did not improve and their father told doctors about the chicken deaths, they were transferred to a better-equipped hospital in the nearby city of Van. Blood samples from the Kocyigits were sent to Ankara for tests, which showed that the children had contracted the deadly h5n1 strain of bird flu that has killed about half of those in Asia whose infections have been reported to the World Health Organization (who). By then it was too late; Mehmet Ali died on Jan. 1 and his sister four days later, setting off the latest upsurge of fear that the lethal...
Avian flu claimed more lives last week. In eastern Turkey, initial tests showed at least two of the three deceased siblings from the Kocyigit family had succumbed to the virus' dreaded H5N1 strain, becoming its first human victims outside East Asia. As fears of a pandemic continue to grow, customs and health official's are struggling to halt a burgeoning trade in counterfeit forms of Tamiflu, the only drug approved to treat the disease. U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officials tell TIME that last week their officers seized 250 separate parcels of suspect Tamiflu at the airmail facility...
...Army data obtained by TIME that have not yet been officially released, there were 8,367 divorces in 2005, down from 10,477 in 2004. That number is still higher than the total before the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, but officials, who concede that year-long deployments can strain marriages, are working on the issue. The Army has raised funding to $3.6 million a year for initiatives to help troops deal with the stresses, and its "family life" chaplains will expand two programs: "Pick a Partner"?troops call it "How Not to Marry a Jerk"?targets single...
...England Journal of Medicine recently published a paper in which investigators surveyed 187 cases of C. diff at eight health care facilities in Georgia, Illinois, Maine, New Jersey, Oregon and Pennsylvania. More than half of the cases were caused by the new, more dangerous strain. The CDC conducted a survey of its own, profiling 33 recent cases in four states. Twenty-three of the people had never been hospitalized and the other 10 were women who had had only brief hospital stays to deliver babies-suggesting that the new strain is ranging freer than any C. diff has before...
...more, truly essential antibiotics should still be prescribed and taken. It's the more casual dosing-for sore throats or mild infections that could clear up on their own-that create the problem. Staying clean and washing up is critical. And for those who do contract the new strain of the disease, the prognosis is nowhere near hopeless. The CDC recommends discontinuing the use of other antibiotics if possible and treating the infection with those antibiotics known as vancomycin or matronidazole. Constant monitoring is important, since the disease may retreat for a time and then reemerge. Like all new bugs...