Egypt has over a hundred suspected bird flu cases. I am hoping these are negative.
Indonesia
Vietnam has a bunch of sick kids with flu like sx and they had a bird flu death this past week.
Vietnam - Fever rampant in Ha Noi children
http://vietnamnews.vnagency.co...HA NOI - The number of children suffering from virus-related fevers and respiratory diseases is rising in Ha Noi.
The number of children admitted to the hospital has risen in the past few weeks, said Dr Nguyen The Thanh of Bach Mai Hospital's Paediatrics Department.
"There are between 70 and 80 child patients hospitalised each day. This number increases by 150 at the weekends when the outpatients' department is off," he said.
Three to a bed
Currently, the hospital is crammed with young patients, with two or three children sharing a bed.
The Saint Paul Hospital's Paediatrics Department is currently receiving 500 to 600 new patients each day. As many as 200 of these have acute respiratory problems and high fever, according to the department's Doctor Nguyen Thi Tho.
Thanh said that common symptoms were headaches, chills, muscle pain and vomiting. Some also suffered from convulsions and difficulty breathing.
and nepal has something going on
Pneumonia scourge in hostel
Last Updated : 2009-05-10 8:41 AM
The Himalayan Times -
GORKHA: More than 50 per cent of the students living in a hostel of Manakamana Deaf Secondary School at Taksar in Gorkha-8 are suffering from pneumonia. Over 40 students are suffering from the disease while condition of eight students is reported to be critical, a school source said.
According to Khadananda Regmi, chairman of the school management committee, the number of students suffering from the disease was increasing everyday while more and more students were showing symptoms of the disease of headache, fever and vomiting.
The students suffering from the disease are undergoing treatment in the hostel with the help of the staffers from the district public health office.
The school is running classes up to Grade IX and 80 deaf students from several districts are living in the school hostel, the school source said.
http://www.thehimalayantimes.com/fullNews.php?headline=Pneumonia+scourge+in+hostel&id=NDExNg==&catid=NQ==and
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An official spokesman told PTI on Sunday that following a warning from the WHO, the state government has made arrangements to monitor the border.
"Monitoring centres equipped with team of doctors and medical kits have been set up at the immigration offices of Sonauli and Rupaideeha barriers of Indo-Nepal border falling under Mahrajganj and Bahraich districts respectively," he said.
Chief Medical Officer of Gorakhpur R N Mishra told PTI that WHO has provided these doctors with personal protection kits, including mask and goggles, to collect blood samples of people entering India via the border.
http://www.hindustantimes.com/StoryPage/FullcoverageStoryPage.aspx?sectionName=HomePage&id=53a0fe6f-82de-472d-aff9-6e4cd46e3067Swineflu_Special&Headline=Swine+flu%3a+Indo-Nepal+border+under+scanner