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Is Birdflu in Iraq?

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    Posted: January 12 2006 at 6:10am

One of my first posts here please be gentle.

Just wundering with the war going on in Iraq, How would this country conduct effective testing and preventive measures?

If it gets into Iraq IMO it will be difficult to prevent it from going global. Think about the multinational forces going back to their prespective countries as they are rotated in/out.

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The USMC eradication program.   
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Here's something I found

"Terrorism is more dangerous than bird flu," Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari told Iraqi reporters. "It targets all, children, women, schools and the public market."

Health officials said measures were being taken to prevent bird flu from entering Iraq from neighboring Turkey, where at least 15 people have been confirmed infected with the deadly H5N1 strain and two have died.

Doctors, veterinarians and other health ministry officials met Sunday in northern Iraq's Kurdish enclave to discuss bird flu, the region's minister of agriculture said.

"A campaign will start on the borders of Turkey and Iran to prevent the importation of any kind of bird," Shamal Abid Waffal said. "No living birds are allowed to be sold in the markets. Even the frozen birds are not allowed to be taken from one city to another without medical tests."

There have been no reported cases of bird flu in Iraq.

"The situation is under control and even if any case of bird flu appears in Iraq, we can control it immediately,' said Qassem Yahya Allawi, a spokesman for the health ministry.

But it remained unclear what steps could be taken in violence-wracked Iraq should an outbreak occur.

Iraq's security forces, numbering about 214,000, are hard pressed fighting the insurgency. There are also about 160,000 U.S. troops serving in Iraq with a multinational coalition.

Capt. Peter Purrington, a surgeon with the 101st Airborne Division's 3rd Brigade, said the unit had the anti-viral drug Tamiflu available, but was not stockpiling it in case of a significant outbreak.

In Geneva, WHO said a network of "focal points" had been set up across Iraq, with doctors responsible for surveillance and investigating any possible outbreak.

WHO spokeswoman Fadela Chaib said if there is a bird flu outbreak in Iraq, "it will be difficult, but we worked also in other war-torn countries."

http://www.forbes.com/business/feeds/ap/2006/01/11/ap2443980 .html

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3rd try is a charm..trying to post this map so you can see.and I have wondered that also

BIRD-FLU OUTBREAKS AROUND THE WORLD
Confirmed H5N1 strain only
Human cases: laboratory-confirmed since Dec 2003
UK case discovered in quarantine, so disease-free status unaffected

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woo hoo finally..but look at the map...why the blank space at the bottom
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This is the official way to diagnosis Influenza

         Viral culture

         Rapid antigen detection

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These are the official ways to prevent Influenza

         Hand washing

         Cover mouth when sneezing and coughing

         Avoiding work and school when sick

         Use crook of elbow not hands

         Immunization

         Chemoprophylaxis



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BAGHDAD, Jan 12 (Reuters) - Iraq said on Thursday it was on high alert to prevent the spread of avian flu from neighbouring Turkey, but officials conceded that poor border controls would make it difficult to enforce a ban on importing birds.

Iraq has been trying to secure porous borders with its neighbours, particularly Syria, since 2003 to stop the flow of foreign insurgents but with little success. Tribes living along border areas also make a living from smuggling goods.

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The H5N1 bird flu virus has been found in wild birds and poultry across large parts of Turkey, particularly in poor villages stretching from Istanbul at the gates of Europe to Van near the Iranian and Iraqi borders.

Turkey says the virus has infected 18 people, including three children from the east of the country who died last week.

Migrating wild birds, often seen as a carrier of the virus, are due to start arriving soon at Lake Ducan in Kurdistan in northern Iraq.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/KAR256211.htm

 


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where there is war there is always desease.

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 Message # 151 mentions Mosul. Acarology keyword search: Pica, Passer, Anas, Carpodacus, etc.

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18 January 2006 -- Health officials in northern Iraq have asked Jordanian researchers to test for the lethal bird flu virus H5N1 in the body of a 14-year-old girl who died on 17 January in the Kurdish city of Al-Sulaymaniyah.

The health minister in the regional government, Muhammad Khashnov, said Tijan Abdel-Qader died on arrival at the hospital on 17 January after falling ill on 2 January in her home town of Raniya, which lies close to the Turkish and Iranian borders.

An Iraqi Health Ministry spokesman confirmed the suspected case and a senior central government health official in Baghdad confirmed that a team has been dispatched to investigate.

http://rferl.org/featuresarticle/2006/01/5B804960-46F6-4E80- 805A-67D40E33CA1D.html

I wunder when this will hit the headlines...

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Originally posted by muskrat muskrat wrote:

woo hoo finally..but look at the map...why the blank space at the bottom


They don't die from bird flu in India. They die from Anything But Bird Flu........

In Pakinstan they are dying because of pneumonia after the earthquake.  "Don't worry, it is normal for the conditions." When the doctors die in hospital, it is from Crimean Congo Hemorrhagic Fever.  Samples were sent to South Africa for confirmation......................

In Iran they die from pneumonia because it is the winter pneumonia season.  A lot more people dying of pneumonia this year....................


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I am sure they will write off the case in Iraq as something else as well.  It seems as though preliminary tests give many false negatives.  After death, further analysis and testing has shown positives.  I wonder how many of those are being convered up by the WHO.
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