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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



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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

http://www.turkishpress.com/news.asp?id=104365

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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Guests Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 21 2006 at 4:33pm

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...

http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/cidrap/content/influenza/avianflu/ biofacts/avflu_human.html#_Background_on_Avian_1

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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):

  • The child presented with a 2-day history of fever, headache, vomiting, and severe diarrhea (approximately 10 episodes per day). The stools were watery without blood or mucus.
  • Laboratory tests on admission were unremarkable and chest x-ray was normal.
  • On the third day following initial presentation, the child had a generalized convulsion and became comatose. He developed respiratory failure and died on the fifth day after initial presentation. Acute encephalitis of unknown origin was reported as the cause of death; no autopsy was performed.
  • H5N1 influenza A virus was isolated from cerebrospinal fluid, fecal, throat, and serum specimens.
  • The patient's 9-year-old sister had died 2 weeks earlier from a similar clinical syndrome.

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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote phyrefly Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 21 2006 at 7:32pm
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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