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Bird Flu EpidemicViruses are masters of inter-species routing. Mutating swiftly and often grabbing the genetic material of other viruses ..... China has reported only three confirmed cases of H5N1 in people of which a boy in Hunan province who recovered, and two women in Anhui province who died, the latest of which was announced on Thursday. There was another possible case in Hunan. The potential problem of underreporting might not only be technical. There are also many a claims that Chinese medical personnel have been arrested for trying to report cases. China imposed serious restrictions on the investigation and reporting of suspected cases of bird flu in June 2005.
Virologists consider the relative absence of human cases of bird flu in China strange, given its widespread infection in birds. China has reported 22 poultry eruption in 10 provinces all across the country since mid-October 2005, the latest being on Friday. The WHO told the official Chinese news agency Xinhua last week that the virus that caused the eruption in Hunan is the same as the H5N1 flu in Vietnam and Thailand, where it has caused 113 confirmed human cases and 55 deaths so far. Officials said five people suspected of having the virus had died, in addition to a six-year old boy who became the first confirmed casualty.
Bird Flu In EuropeThe birds were found on the island of Ruegen in the Baltic Sea, off Germany. Austria has also established its first cases of ..... The World Health Organization said the flu's rapid expand posed a potential threat for a serious human outbreak. However, there has been still been no signal of it jumping from human to human. A WHO spokesman told the BBC that it was becoming clear that injure had been around in the region much longer than first thought. That it had multiplied the risk of human infections, and of the virus mutating, perhaps by attaching itself to human flu and becoming far more deadly. The WHO believes the disease is now too serious for individual countries to deal with alone. Among the Thai dead were two women and three men, according to a statement subjected by Thailand's disease control director Charal Trinvuthipong.
Earlier on Monday, the Thai Agriculture Ministry said the virus had been detected in eight more provinces, in addition to two provinces previously confirmed. It said all the victims were from two provinces central Sukhothai and Chachanoengsao, east of the capital Bangkok. The Thai outburst has triggered alarm across the region. In Laos, where thousands of chickens have died, corpses of dead birds have been sent to Vietnam for tests. There are also reports of a boy dying of bird flu in the adjacent Cambodia, the BBC's Rachel Harvey reports.
Bird Flu OutbreakThe pathogenic causative agent for his diseases is the avian influenza (H5N1) virus. The pathogens travel the oral-faecal .....
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