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Five children hospitalized for possible bird flu
Friday, March 30, 2007
ANKARA - Associated Press
Authorities in southeast Turkey on Thursday hospitalized five children who came in contact with dead chickens as a precaution against possible bird flu, the hospital said. The five, all suffering from flu-like symptoms, were from a village near the town of Karkamış, in southeastern Gaziantep province.
Cuma Yıldırım, deputy chief physician at Gaziantep hospital, said he was almost certain that the children were suffering from ordinary flu - and not bird flu - but said they were hospitalized as a precaution. Samples from the children and the chickens were sent to the capital, Ankara, for tests.
Turkey was hit hard by bird flu in January 2006, when 12 people were infected and four died of the deadly H5N1 bird flu strain. This year, Turkey detected the H5N1 strain in fowl in four villages in the southeastern provinces of Batman and Diyarbakir and culled more than 3,500 fowl in affected areas.
Gaziantep province: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaziantep_Province
Five children hospitalized for possible bird flu
Friday, March 30, 2007
ANKARA - Associated Press
Authorities in southeast Turkey on Thursday hospitalized five children who came in contact with dead chickens as a precaution against possible bird flu, the hospital said. The five, all suffering from flu-like symptoms, were from a village near the town of Karkamış, in southeastern Gaziantep province.
Cuma Yıldırım, deputy chief physician at Gaziantep hospital, said he was almost certain that the children were suffering from ordinary flu - and not bird flu - but said they were hospitalized as a precaution. Samples from the children and the chickens were sent to the capital, Ankara, for tests.
Turkey was hit hard by bird flu in January 2006, when 12 people were infected and four died of the deadly H5N1 bird flu strain. This year, Turkey detected the H5N1 strain in fowl in four villages in the southeastern provinces of Batman and Diyarbakir and culled more than 3,500 fowl in affected areas.
Gaziantep province: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaziantep_Province
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