Third 'bird flu' death in Turkey

[rodeodance]

Third 'bird flu' death in Turkey
A Turkish girl has died from bird flu symptoms, days after her brother and sister died from the disease.

The girl, 11, who lives on a poultry farm in eastern Turkey, was being treated in hospital after her family became infected with the disease.

Some 25 people are being treated across Turkey for bird flu-like symptoms, according to reports.

Turkey has begun a mass cull of poultry in an effort to stem the spread of bird flu throughout the east of the country.


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Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/world/europe/4586534.stm

Published: 2006/01/06 06:32:37 GMT

[DPirate]

1. hmm

What ever happened to that pandemic?

[ingac70]

2. Its about 10 years off.....

looking at the evolutionary cycle of the influenza virus....

[Mojorabbit]

3. you are joking or terribly uninformed? n/t

[ingac70]

4. A better estimate than wondering why it isn't here now....

I love feeding trolls.

[redacted]

5. Reuters version of story

Thanks Mojorabbit for first spotting this story:

ANKARA (Reuters) - A third child from the same family died of bird flu in a Turkish hospital on Friday, the third human fatality outside China and Southeast Asia.

Hulya Kocyigit, 11, was the sister of Mehmet Ali, 14, who died last weekend, and of Fatma, 15, who died on Thursday.

The children lived in a remote rural district of eastern Turkey near the Armenian border. A six-year-old brother is also being treated for the same disease in the hospital.

Huseyin Avni Sahin, the head doctor at Van hospital where the children died, told CNN Turk 23 people were now being treated at his hospital for suspected bird flu.

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[SaveElmer]

6. These kids were apparently playing with the dead chickens...

I'm reading that this family had some chickens die, so decided to cook and eat the rest. The kids were apparently playing with the dead chicken heads inside their house and that is likely how they became sick. Makes some sense since their parents didn't get sick.

[Occulus]

7. Is anyone else noticing how it always seems to have involved

direct contact with the infected birds in some way?

I'm thinking, for now, that's a requirement...

[Bridget Burke]

8. Yes, all cases so far seem to involve contact with birds....

The problem is that a mutation could easily make the Flu transmissible between humans. Just because this is not Bush's "Scream Scream, call in the Army!" emergency does not mean that the scientific world should not keep an eye on the disease. They have been for several years now.

[gkhouston]

9. no, there were some cases in East Asia which may have been

clusters of limited human-to-human transmission... person A got sick while taking care of person B and person A has no recollection of contact with birds. Did A get the disease from B or was there some inadvertent contact that A didn't remember? It is true that there hasn't been any sustained human-to-human transmission, i.e., the "you cough, everybody in the room can get it" thing that happens with regular flu.

[Bridget Burke]

10. OK. Thanks for the correction.

This is a serious matter that requires continued attention from the Scientific & Medical types.

Just because Bush tried to make it HIS issue is no reason to discount the whole thing.