30 Pills to Treat Flu in Northern Iraq

Iraqi Doctors Desperately Short Of Bird Flu Medications

Article Date: 01 Feb 2006 - 17:00pm (UK)

"According to medical professionals in northern Iraq, there is a serious
shortage of medicines to deal with the sudden outbreak of bird flu in the
Sulaimaniyah area. In fact, things are so bad there that their pharmacies
have just 30 pills (in total) to treat a growing number of patients.

30 pills would just about treat four patients".


http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/healthnews.php?newsid=36973

February 01, 2006 12:00 am

Another battleground in Iraq

"U.S. officials have offered assistance and a team of epidemiologists and
clinicians are expected later in the week. It's especially sensitive because
of
the insurgents active in the area. Even if Iraq had medications, it lacks the
governmental infrastructure to dispense them."

http://www.normantranscript.com/opinion/local_story_03200163 7?
keyword=topstory

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Iraqi Government Tries to Prevent
Bird Flu Outbreak

"Residents in northern Iraq are sceptical that the government is telling the
truth about bird flu in the region. Rumours that the disease had reached
Iraqi Kurdistan have been circulated in the region for months.

"People knew the disease existed, and the girl died because of it. But they
kept it a secret from the people," said Kazim Muhammad, a 23-year-old
medical student in Sulaimaniyah. "Now if they say they have gotten rid of
the virus, people will not believe the authorities because they lied to them
from the beginning."

Health officials at first denied that the victim, Shangeen Abdul Qadir, had
died of bird flu based on initial test results. But they later confirmed that
the H5N1 strain was to blame for her death. "

Many residents in northeast of the country stopped buying poultry last
fall when the first suspected case appeared in Erbil, the capital of Iraqi
Kurdistan.

http://web.krg.org/articles/article_detail.asp?LangNr=12&Rub ricNr=&ArticleNr=9111&LNNr=28&RNNr=70

Edited by Rick

Unbelievable, a government that speaks with a forked tongue.

definitely 'contagious'


Marjo