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    Posted: January 20 2009 at 11:51am

Bird flu situation 'grim' as teen boy dies from H5N1

Source: Agencies/Shanghai Daily  |   2009-1-21  |     NEWSPAPER EDITION


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CHINA'S health minister said yesterday that the country faces a "grim" situation as it tries to prevent people from being exposed to avian flu.

His comments came as a teenage boy infected with the H5N1 bird flu virus died yesterday in central China, the country's third fatality from the disease this month.

"It is the high season for human bird flu cases," said Health Minister Chen Zhu.

He ordered health departments across the country to double their efforts to combat the disease at a time when tens of millions of people are traveling between cities and rural hometowns for the Lunar New Year holiday, which typically features poultry feasts.

The latest victim, a 16-year-old student surnamed Wu, died yesterday in Huaihua, a city in Hunan Province, local health officials said. He fell ill on January 8 in his hometown in the neighboring province of Guizhou and was transferred to a hospital in Huaihua last Friday, when his condition worsened. He had been in contact with dead poultry.

The two other bird flu deaths were a 27-year-old woman in Shandong Province who died last Saturday and a 19-year-old woman who died in Beijing on January 5.

Also yesterday, a 2-year-old girl who had been critically ill with the H5N1 virus in north China's Shanxi Province was still in a critical condition, doctors said. China Central Television said on its noon newscast that the girl had been to live poultry markets "many times" in Changsha when she lived with her parents in the capital city of Hunan.

The girl's mother died earlier this month from pneumonia after being exposed to poultry, a Hunan health bureau official said in an interview published yesterday in the China Business News newspaper. However, the official could not confirm a link to H5N1.

Most bird flu cases stem from exposure to sick birds, but human-to-human transmission of bird flu has happened about a dozen times in the past. In nearly every case, transmission occurred among blood relatives who had been in close contact, and the virus did not spread into the wider community.

"Whenever there is a case of humans contracting the H5N1 virus, there is a concern," said Nyka Alexander, a Beijing-based spokeswoman for the World Health Organization. "As long as H5N1 continues to circulate in poultry, there is the risk of human infection. This is why it is so important to treat each case seriously."

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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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Originally posted by abcdefg abcdefg wrote:

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. .
I covered this story 2 1/2 years ago and it was a cluster. We had 4 people - 2 were nurse both who came down with symptoms - several deaths -

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)

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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 feast

The 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.

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