INTERNATIONAL: TIME TO DIAGNOSE BIRD FLU MAY HAMPER FUTURE PANDEMIC CONTROL

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• Publication Date: January 10, 2006

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(atg) International: Time To Diagnose Bird Flu May Hamper Future Pandemic Control
The more than two weeks It took to diagnose recent human cases of suspected H5N1 avian flu in
Turkey demonstrates the weakness of containment strategies for avian flu, even in nations with
strong public health systems. Several members of a Turkish farm family were sick for more than a week
before they were hospitalized, and laboratory confirmation of an H5 infection took four additional days,
ItIVHO tests confirmed the infections were H5N1 on 7 January.
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� Press reports say the Turkish patients had close contact with or ate diseased birds on their family farm.
Doctors found no evidence of human-to-human transmission.
� If the virus becomes transmissible among people, those infected could spread the disease for
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H5N1 Outbreaks In Turkey, October 2005 to January 2006 (U)
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H5N1 Outbreaks in Turkey, October 2005 to January 2006 (U)
BULGARIA
Aegean
Sea
pREECy
H5N1 confirmed in poultry
Med. Sea
Black Sea
Where indicated, the outbreaks in eastern Turkey
have been confirmed to be positive for the H5
subtype. Samples from the outbreaks have been
sent to qualified laboratories for confirmation of
the N subtype.
Turkey: Selected Avian Influenza Outbreaks
in Poultry and People, October 2005�Prese it
� 00;ober 2005
Poultry outbreak in
Kiziksa, Balikesir
Province.
C 5-2.3 December 2005
Four siblings
probably infected in
Dogubayazit, Agri
Province; 1-2 days
later the patients
become
symptomatic.
13 October. MI5
H5N1 confirmed in
samples sent to the World
Organization for Animal
Health reference lab, UK.
115 confirmed
in poultry
H5N1 confirmed
In humans
SYRIA
January 2006
First sibling dies.
RUSSIA
GEORGIA
Saone
Selected province
H5N1 confirmed In humans
H5N1 suspected in humans
H5N1 confirmed in poultry
H5N1 suspected in poultry
o WO Lir 200 12:021elem
I00 200 Miles
(4 January 2006
Health Ministry
announces two
confirmed, one
suspected case of
H5 infection.
January 2606
A total of 14 locally
confirmed cases of
H5N1 Infection in
Turkey�four of those
confirmed by WHO.
(2905
(I 31 December 2005
Siblings hospitalized
In Van Province;
initial tests negative
for H5.
C26 December 2005
Outbreak in Aralik
confirmed to be H5.
(-5 December 2005
Poultry outbreak in
Aralik, Igdir Province.
6 January 2006
Third sibling dies
(not laboratory
confirmed for
Avian Influenza).
7 January 2006
H5N1 confirmed in
first two sibling cases
by the World Health
Organization (WHO),
5 January 2006
Second sibling dies.
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