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Posted: January 20 2009 at 11:51am |
Bird flu situation 'grim' as teen boy dies from H5N1Source: Agencies/Shanghai Daily | 2009-1-21 | NEWSPAPER EDITION
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I knew of two times when Human to Human transmission was considered to be a possibilty. I think one was in Vietnam where a woman got the disease and then had her family over to her home and the whole family got sick. The second was when a father and son got sick in China both having ate at the same restruant. That makes two. Now we have this bomb dropped that they think it has passed Human to Human 12 times. Look at the numbers of how many have had bf in China, not many if they are talking about their own country that would mean about half the cases they suspect as being passed from H to H. I believe they are talking about world wide, and Now I do recall that India or Egypt may have had some suspected H to H speads, but 12 have certainly not been confirmed. It always concerns me, when they news just drops that bomb, like it was common knowleldge wihen they know fully well it is not. I wonder are they trying to tell us something. Also, if the Chinese who are saying it has been passed H2H 12 times, are saying that the news is "grim" because everyone is traveling for New Year, in order for them to think a disease that was formerly found in B to H transmission, then why would the news be so grim? To me, I certainly can be wrong and pray that I am, but if they are using words like grim, and admitting to 12 times being passed human to hiuman, I tend to think this is far worse then they are saying, as they are known to hide the truth not put light on it. If they are shining the light it seems to me, my opinion only that there is more to it, that these women being exposed to foul and the child also.
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the nurse lived in an apartment and was not at all exposed to birds - and then one relative passed to another (their time they got sick was spaced out like an incubation period) also - 2004 The World Health Organization says it cannot rule out the possibility that two women in Vietnam have caught bird flu by human-to-human transmission. Such transmission has been feared by health authorities, as it could signal the start of a dangerous new phase in the epidemic. However, there is so far no evidence that the virus has undergone changes that would make it highly contagious among humans. The greatest fear is that the bird flu will recombine with a human strain, making it both highly pathogenic and easily transmitted from person to person. Klaus Stöhr, head of influenza surveillance at the WHO, points out that some human-to-human transmission took place when the same type of bird flu virus, H5N1, first infected humans in Hong Kong in 1997. Another bird flu virus, H7N7, spread between people in the Netherlands in 2003. In both cases the second person to get the virus did not pass it on to a third. That also seems to be what happened in Vietnam, says Stöhr. Wedding feastThe WHO revealed on Sunday that two Vietnamese women who died from bird flu may have been infected at a wedding. A 31-year-old man and his sister died shortly afterwards. The man and his sister had both slaughtered and prepared a duck for the wedding reception. Another sister, and the man's wife, aged 23 and 30, also went on to develop the disease, and the wife died. But neither is known to have had contact with poultry. "The investigation failed to reveal a specific event such as contact with infected poultry or an environmental source that might explain the source of infection," said a WHO spokesman. "The WHO considers that limited human-to-human transmission is one possible explanation." In a separate development, a woman in Germany was admitted to hospital in Hamburg on Monday suffering from suspected bird flu. The woman had recently returned from a holiday Thailand. "We are now running a PCR test on her to see whether we can identify whether she has the flu virus or not," says Bernhard Fleischer, director of the Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine. But he told New Scientist: "At this stage its rather premature to fear that she has flu." If the tests do prove positive, investigators will want to determine whether the tourist had contact with any poultry or is more likely to have caught it from another person. Medclinician |
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