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Child Suspected To Have Bird Flu Dies |
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Posted: January 21 2006 at 3:02pm |
A child suspected to have bird flu died in Turkey on the way to the hospital: http://www.turkishpress.com/news.asp?id=104365 Edited by ps36 |
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Release from the Turkey BIRD FLU COORDINATION CENTER: THE CHILD WHO DIED ON THE WAY TO THE HOSPITAL DID NOT HAVE ANY UPPER RESPIRATORY COMPLAINTS ACCORDING TO RELEVANT HOSPITALS AND DID NOT HAVE ANY CONTACT WITH ILL OR CULLED FOWL Yet they still suspect bird flu. mmmmmm. scary |
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We have had one confirmed case where there was NO respiratory symptoms. The child died presenting only intestinal & neurological symptoms... Don't know if I can dig up the reference but I will try after my dinner. |
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Well, I can't find the danged write up on this case...maybe I am remembering incorrectly. but I swear I remember the case. It upset the researchers something fierce.
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HAH!! Persistence pays off... Here is a reference to the case on CIDRAP... [snip] Some patients have presented with primarily gastrointestinal symptoms. In addition, a recent case report of a 4-year-old Vietnamese child with H5N1 avian influenza who presented in 2004 with encephalitis demonstrated the following features (see References: De Jong 2005):
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The one-atom difference referred to in the Mutations thread between asparagine and aspartic acid recalls the difference between the desert and the sea. It is not surprising, then, that respiratory symptoms are playing hide-and-seek in the host. The gastrointestinal symptom could not have shown up at a better time for us.
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Oh wow, unm.edu |
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