3-year-old Indonesian boy has died of bird flu

[beast]

A 3-year-old Indonesian boy has died of bird flu, bringing the nation's death toll from the disease to 105, health officials said Saturday. It was the second bird flu death reported in one day in Indonesia, where health officials announced earlier that a 16-year-old boy from Central Java province had also died from the disease. The latest victim was identified only as Han, a 3-year-old boy from southern Jakarta who died Friday at a hospital in the eastern part of the capital, Jakarta. Nyoman Kandun, a senior official at Health Ministry, confirmed the report but did not provide details. Laboratory tests confirmed the boy had been infected with the dangerous H5N1 strain of the bird flu virus, Kandun said.



Source: http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/woalert_read.php?lang=eng&cid=15423

[Morgan]

Egypt has been having lots of cases of BF.

I think there was another woman admitted to hospital with BF just within the last couple of days.

I hope it doesn't come to the usa


Morgan

[beast]

Hi Morgan,
nice of you to drop by.

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  recombinomics is saying the the bird flu in egypt is evolving rapidly.

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CAIRO, March 1 (Xinhua) -- Egypt on Saturday confirmed that a 25-year-old woman was infected with bird flu virus, which was the 45th human infection case in the populous Arab country, the official MENA news agency reported.

    The woman had been transferred from a local hospital in Fayyum,85 km south to Cairo, to a hospital in the capital after having developed the symptom of high fever and been treated with the antiviral drug Tamiflu, Health Ministry spokesman Abdel Rahman Shaheen was quoted as saying.

    This is the second human bird flu case detected in a week in Egypt after a four-year-old girl on Monday was confirmed being infected with bird flu virus in El Minya governorate, Upper Egypt, some 220 km south of Cairo.

    The girl is now still under treatment at Manshiat al-Bakri hospital in Cairo with her condition in stable, according to MENA.

    The Egyptian government has exerted more efforts to prevent further spread of bird flu since the fatal virus caused four human deaths in less than a week in late December, 2007.

    Among a total of 45 human cases in Egypt, 19 deaths have been reported since the country detected the first H5N1 virus in dead poultry in February 2006 and the first human case in March of the same year.

 

[Morgan]

Hi beast

I'm heading off to bed.  It's chilly and our winter rains are coming back.

I'm not going to turn on the news until after 12 PST... by then the 'breaking news' should have been broked