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    Posted: February 08 2006 at 4:33am
Bird flu scare a false alarm

By TBT staff - 08.02.2006

VILNIUS – "A 61-year-old Indian citizen who died in Klaipeda on Monday
was not carrying the bird flu, Lithuanian forensics specialists said on
Tuesday.

A postmortem was performed on Tuesday has yet to produce a final
answer, but forensics experts said the sailor passed away due to a heart
attack. "

The bird flu scare originally arose after paramedics after the Emergency
Medical Treatment Station, who transported the body to the morgue, said
the deceased may have been infected with the bird flu that has caused
panic in Europe and Turkey. "


* They seemed to have getting results a lot faster now.


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www.baltictimes.com/hot1.php?art_id=14585

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Posted on : Wed, 11 Jan 2006 21:34:00 GMT | Author : Darya Zarin

Lithuania - "A top Lithuanian health official has warned that the country
could face an imminent threat of bird flu due to the recent spurt of cases in
Turkey. These remarks were carried by Lietuvos Zinios newspaper in a report
on Tuesday. "

http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/4971.html
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Well that paints a clear picture......lol
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These sailor stories just do not make sense.  Why in the world would they think he had bird flu?  He had chest and arm pain...I am not EMT but I would suspect a heart attack!  Bird flu would not even cross my mind.  There is something strange going on here with the newspaper articles.  There is some "HUGE" clue that is not being released.  The entire thing does not make sense!
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If I remember right, the initial story had the man with "Classic Bird Flu symptoms"

How did those symptoms change to chest and arm pain?

The story is very discontinuous.
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Simple...Edit...Edit...Edit!

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"If I remember right, the initial story had the man with
"Classic Bird Flu symptoms"

How did those symptoms change to chest and arm pain?"

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Good Point!




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Alternative possibility:

Lithuania knows its going to get H5N1 via the migratory bird path, due to its geographic location near to infected countries, and they are on alert, getting ready to alert the public etc. Perhaps the health ministry jumped the gun? Perhaps they are err'ing on the side of caution in the way that many people here think the WHO should. If so then this confusion is an example of why its just as bad to be too alarmist as too complacent, its no more accurate or beneficial.

As I said the other day, expect a lot more false alarms now as awareness raises and as we are in the normal flu season. This means we should slightly adjust our assumptions, its no longer safe to assume that most potential bird flu stories are going to turn out to be true.


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No false alarm, Africa, or in northern Uganda. Lithuania is going to be
Disneyland compared to what is happening there.
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Im not suggesting that every alarm is going to be false now, just that I would expect more false alarms. 
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Could it be that he had the BF and then had a heart attack as a side effect, or maybe it wasn't related at all.
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Originally posted by Angel Angel wrote:

These sailor stories just do not make sense.  Why in the world would they think he had bird flu?  He had chest and arm pain...I am not EMT but I would suspect a heart attack!  Bird flu would not even cross my mind.  There is something strange going on here with the newspaper articles.  There is some "HUGE" clue that is not being released.  The entire thing does not make sense!
Angel, I think that Rick's original post answers your question.
Originally posted by Rick Rick wrote:

"The bird flu scare originally arose after paramedics after the Emergency Medical Treatment Station, who transported the body to the morgue, said the deceased may have been infected with the bird flu that has caused panic in Europe and Turkey. "
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