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Tracking the next pandemic: Avian Flu Talk

Hong Kong 33 Suspect Cases - Event Date: June 17 2006
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I think the government in Indonesia has realized the urgency of this as well.  As we saw in the Karo district, it's not always the leaders of the country, but public officials, and in many cases, individuals that don't want to report the disease.  I'm sure that's a big part of the problem in China as well.  How do you convince someone to give up their source of income/food?  So much time and money being spent and it's hard to see alot of progress.  Thanks for your work medclinician (and everyone else, too). I HOPE the government is reading this and every other forum.
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Going back to cats for a moment.
In China they skin cats for the fur trade and dogs. They could be a vector and skinning a cat if carrying the virus or carrying the fur in a lorry etc. could spread the virus.
What was the lorry driver delivering for instance?
Just a thought.
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More likely he ate Fish...
 
Fish farming and the risk of spread of avian influenza
 
FAO/OIE/WHO (2005) identified the use of poultry manure
in fish farming as one of the risk factors in the spread of AI.
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fluprepper, I read somewhere he worked for a shoe factory.
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Why aren't we getting reports of the people in Hong Kong with symptoms of pneumonia? What kind of flu do they have? Have they been given the "all clear" for avian flu? Getting no results just does't make sense to me. Allaying the fears of the public would seem to serve the position they have taken, would it not? Any info. or insight here?
    
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Contacts of Bird Flu Victim in Shenzhen Released

The 98 people who had close contact with Shenzhen City's first confirmed human bird flu patient were released after seven days of medical observation Tuesday.

None of the 98 had shown bird flu symptoms, said the municipal center for disease control and prevention (CDC) at a press conference on the same day.

"We have observed 98 people in Luohu and Longgang districts, including the patient's family, colleagues, friends and medical staff from the Shenzhen People's Hospital," said Jiang Lijuan, a spokeswoman of the center.

"All the 98 people had body contact with the bird flu patient after he showed symptoms and didn't have any protection during the contact."

However, the CDC said a citywide second-level precautionary emergency system against bird flu, announced by authorities last week, was still in operation.

On June 11, a 31-year-old truck driver in Longgang District, known only by his surnamed Jiang, tested positive for H5N1 virus nucleic acid and was listed as a suspected human bird flu case by the CDC. He was later confirmed to be infected with bird flu by the Ministry of Health.

The CDC said Jiang had tested negative for H5N1 virus nucleic acid Saturday and is recovering from the disease.

(Shenzhen Daily June 21, 2006)
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