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Is Birdflu in Iraq? |
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Outlaw JW
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Posted: January 12 2006 at 6:10am |
One of my first posts here please be gentle. Just wundering with the war going on in Iraq, How would this country conduct effective testing and preventive measures? If it gets into Iraq IMO it will be difficult to prevent it from going global. Think about the multinational forces going back to their prespective countries as they are rotated in/out. |
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The USMC eradication program.
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Here's something I found "Terrorism is more dangerous than bird flu," Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari told Iraqi reporters. "It targets all, children, women, schools and the public market." http://www.forbes.com/business/feeds/ap/2006/01/11/ap2443980 .html |
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3rd try is a charm..trying to post this map so you can see.and I have wondered that also BIRD-FLU OUTBREAKS AROUND THE WORLD
Confirmed H5N1 strain only
Human cases: laboratory-confirmed since Dec 2003
UK case discovered in quarantine, so disease-free status unaffected |
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woo hoo finally..but look at the map...why the blank space at the bottom
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This is the official way to diagnosis Influenza • Viral culture • Rapid antigen detection |
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These are the official ways to prevent Influenza • Hand washing • Cover mouth when sneezing and coughing • Avoiding work and school when sick • Use crook of elbow not hands • Immunization • Chemoprophylaxis Edited by KillerFlu.net |
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BAGHDAD, Jan 12 (Reuters) - Iraq said on Thursday it was on high alert to prevent the spread of avian flu from neighbouring Turkey, but officials conceded that poor border controls would make it difficult to enforce a ban on importing birds.
Iraq has been trying to secure porous borders with its neighbours, particularly Syria, since 2003 to stop the flow of foreign insurgents but with little success. Tribes living along border areas also make a living from smuggling goods. Skip The H5N1 bird flu virus has been found in wild birds and poultry across large parts of Turkey, particularly in poor villages stretching from Istanbul at the gates of Europe to Van near the Iranian and Iraqi borders. Turkey says the virus has infected 18 people, including three children from the east of the country who died last week. Migrating wild birds, often seen as a carrier of the virus, are due to start arriving soon at Lake Ducan in Kurdistan in northern Iraq. http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/KAR256211.htm
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where there is war there is always desease. |
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Message # 151 mentions Mosul. Acarology keyword search: Pica, Passer, Anas, Carpodacus, etc. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/acarology Regards, phyrefly |
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18 January 2006 -- Health officials in northern Iraq have asked Jordanian researchers to test for the lethal bird flu virus H5N1 in the body of a 14-year-old girl who died on 17 January in the Kurdish city of Al-Sulaymaniyah.
The health minister in the regional government, Muhammad Khashnov, said Tijan Abdel-Qader died on arrival at the hospital on 17 January after falling ill on 2 January in her home town of Raniya, which lies close to the Turkish and Iranian borders. An Iraqi Health Ministry spokesman confirmed the suspected case and a senior central government health official in Baghdad confirmed that a team has been dispatched to investigate. http://rferl.org/featuresarticle/2006/01/5B804960-46F6-4E80- 805A-67D40E33CA1D.html I wunder when this will hit the headlines... |
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They don't die from bird flu in India. They die from Anything But Bird Flu........ In Pakinstan they are dying because of pneumonia after the earthquake. "Don't worry, it is normal for the conditions." When the doctors die in hospital, it is from Crimean Congo Hemorrhagic Fever. Samples were sent to South Africa for confirmation...................... In Iran they die from pneumonia because it is the winter pneumonia season. A lot more people dying of pneumonia this year.................... |
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I am sure they will write off the case in Iraq as something else as well. It seems as though preliminary tests give many false negatives. After death, further analysis and testing has shown positives. I wonder how many of those are being convered up by the WHO.
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