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It is not clear whether these results were from routine testing of the cullers i.e. "4 of 140 samples" (an attack rate of 2.8%) or if these individuals are actually symptomatic and exhibited fever and other bird flu symptoms (post #6), "suffer from high temperatures and have the same symptoms are symptoms of avian influenza disease".
It is not clear whether these results were from routine testing of the cullers i.e. "4 of 140 samples" (an attack rate of 2.8%) or if these individuals are actually symptomatic and exhibited fever and other bird flu symptoms (post #6), "suffer from high temperatures and have the same symptoms are symptoms of avian influenza disease".
Yes -- there are conflicting reports in the Kuwaiti press, so I'm not sure which it is. I'm leaning toward believing that they are, in fact, showing symptoms because that quote about the high temps & symptoms came from the director of the hospital they were taken to. You think he'd know whether or not they had symptoms.
Mind you, looks like they were able to walk into the hospital, so their conditions couldn't have been all that critical yesterday (follow link for pic):
Yes -- there are conflicting reports in the Kuwaiti press, so I'm not sure which it is. I'm leaning toward believing that they are, in fact, showing symptoms because that quote about the high temps & symptoms came from the director of the hospital they were taken to. You think he'd know whether or not they had symptoms.
Mind you, looks like they were able to walk into the hospital, so their conditions couldn't have been all that critical yesterday (follow link for pic):
The patients in Aswan have COLD symptoms (high fever but no pnuemonia). I suspect the H5N1 in Kuwait also produces mild symptoms and these four were identified through routine screening of cullers and once identified were found to have fevers.
Since the samples were sent to NAMRU-3, they tested positive twice. I will be surprised if these are not confirmed.
Last edited by Sally Furniss; April 4, 2007, 06:18 PM.
Reason: typo
Yes -- there are conflicting reports in the Kuwaiti press, so I'm not sure which it is. I'm leaning toward believing that they are, in fact, showing symptoms because that quote about the high temps & symptoms came from the director of the hospital they were taken to. You think he'd know whether or not they had symptoms.
Now I just saw a comment from the same guy saying the 4 are not showing symptoms, so who knows what the heck is going on...
Google-translated from Arabic (from bottom article):
The atmosphere seemed diseases hospital yesterday calm and normal despite the presence of four suspected cases of avian influenza infected. 'Al-Qabas' walked into the hospital diseases and talked to the director of the hospital, Dr. Jamal De'eij who said that the four injured, who brought the isolation ward at the hospital did not exhibit any symptoms of the disease and that the situation remained stable.
Laboratory result Egyptian resolved, announced today
A second examination of the suspects: not infected!
05/04/2007
Wrote Magid blessing:
Everyone is waiting for the announcement of the results of sampling Bengali four workers suspected of being infected with avian influenza disease of the international laboratory approved by the World Health Organization in Cairo, at the eleventh before noon today, informed sources [?] healthy 'Al-Qabas' that the workers were subjected to a fresh examination results yesterday were negative, any void workers disease!
The sources said that these negative results reinforce what previously reported information on the errors of the transfer of blood samples taken last Saturday from the 140 workers within four other sample.
But the Minister of Health, Dr. She blessed immune to such information, 'I do not know .. What is the interest of suspicion for damage or contamination of blood samples! Let us not hold things too thin'.
She said Mubarak told 'Al-Qabas': 'We are awaiting the arrival of the outcome of the examination sample four workers from Egypt, and not in the interest of anybody to hide the results, we will make Thursday evening or Friday morning was negative or positive.'
Oops! The 4 Bengalis are apparently in the country illegally. (The news coming out of Kuwait right now is so confused, btw....)
Google-translated from Arabic:
Avian influenza has infected planning to escape from the hospital for violating residence
D. Jamal De'eij told the nation: 2000 tablets Tamflo pharmacy force ... And Albangalion subject to intensive care
April 5, 2007
Taha Secretary wrote:
The diseases hospital director Dr. Jamal De'eij exclusively told "Homeland" that the hospital waiting for the results of a laboratory test of the Department final four hospitalized the day before yesterday because of suspected H5N1 infected birds.
Said Jamal De'eij Initial estimates of the results of the examination of the second sample, which was sent to the Ministry of Health Central Laboratory may be negative but the World Health Organization does not recognize only the results of laboratory global arbitrator in such cases, pointing out that the Health Ministry's Central Laboratory, which is chaired by Dr. Arrows Mufti had sent four blood samples to the laboratory to the Department World Arab Republic of Egypt of the American Marines [NAMRU] in anticipation of the outcome.
22 cases of suspicion
And Shakour Jamal De'eij that other blood samples sent earlier in the injury of four Bengalis and we have not received their results so far, denied that Kuwait had been informed by the global laboratory in Egypt wounded the other, pointing out that the number of suspected cases of avian influenza injuries had reached 22 cases so now [so far] Almkhalten.
He said that the hospital's pharmacy until yesterday 2000 Tamflo bead [capsules] is the only antibiotic [anti-viral] in the world, which was supposed to be a healer of the virus but the health authorities and pharmaceutical companies fear centered to the transmission of H5N1 from one person to another job, new prescriptions and thus may not be huge Altamflo in this case is antibiotic effective.
Dr. Jamal De'eij that Bengali four supervised by Dr. Khaled Taha and receive Altamflo drug as a preventive measure, expressing his belief that, despite the absence of symptoms of avian flu they should not be addicted to [taken off of] the drug, since Altamflo Kamkhalten poultry and destroy operations in agriculture may cancel the symptoms but the disease or the virus endemic in the blood.
Mini-care unit
Explained that there are three doctors Dr. Hatem Shahin consultant intensive care, Dr. Abd Al-Rahim Qattan consultant anesthetics and Dr. Mohamed Bhazad consultant chest diseases had yesterday morning to supervise the safety and unity of the attention focused (mini) containing four beds, which would be to isolate suspected cases infected avian influenza.
He expressed worry De'eij flight Bengali four for violation of residence laws, and stressed that although he reassured them that their only treatment, except that they have an uneasy feeling!!
Conflicts
On the other hand monitored "Homeland" a contradiction in the information at the central laboratories and the Department of Health on preventive assertion injured Bengali four H5N1 avian flu.
The informed source told "Homeland" that the first sample taken from the four Bengalis had spoiled during transport to the central health laboratories for unknown reasons, which would make doctors take a second sample of patients in Bengali fully eight and a half of the evening the day before yesterday, which order to give the results the preliminary estimate which are usually announced after 10 hours of the start of subjecting a sample of blood for the virus in the laboratory reagents health.
KUWAIT CITY (AFP) - Four Bangladeshi workers who had initially tested Positive for bird flu in Kuwait have been cleared of the disease after further tests, the Kuwaiti health minister said on Thursday.
"We are happy to declare that the results of the tests ... in the referenced laboratory in Egypt have been negative," minister of health Maasouma al-Mubarak told reporters after the latest tests by the World Health Organisation.
On Wednesday, the four workers who had been culling infected chickens in Kuwait were tested positive in preliminary tests, but the ministry of health sent specimens to the WHO reference laboratory in Egypt for confirmation.
They would have been the first cases of bird flu affecting humans in Arab nations of the Gulf, had the cases been confirmed.
The four workers were admitted to Kuwait's infectious diseases hospital with flu-like symptoms on Tuesday. The men have been isolated in a special ward and were still at the hospital on Wednesday.
Since the outbreak of bird flu in Kuwait, 22 people have been admitted to hospital on suspicion of being infected, but later discharged after confirming they were healthy.
The Bangladeshis were part of government teams culling and burying hundreds of thousands of chickens in Wafra, south of Kuwait City on the Saudi border.
Kuwait has culled about 1.7 million birds, most of them egg-laying chickens in four commercial poultry farms, since confirming in February an outbreak of the H5N1 strain of the bird flu virus that is dangerous to humans.
A total of 106 cases of the strain have so far been confirmed in birds.
In November 2005, the Gulf state announced the first case of a bird infected with the H5N1 strain -- a flamingo at a seaside villa.
Four Bangladeshi workers who had initially tested positive for bird flu in Kuwait have been cleared of the disease after further tests, the Kuwaiti health minister said on Thursday.
"We are happy to declare that the results of the tests ... in the referenced laboratory in Egypt have been negative," minister of health Maasouma al-Mubarak told reporters after the latest tests by the World Health Organisation.
On Wednesday, the four workers who had been culling infected chickens in Kuwait were tested positive in preliminary tests, but the ministry of health sent specimens to the WHO reference laboratory in Egypt for confirmation.
They would have been the first cases of bird flu affecting humans in Arab nations of the Gulf, had the cases been confirmed.
The four workers were admitted to Kuwait's infectious diseases hospital with flu-like symptoms on Tuesday. The men have been isolated in a special ward and were still at the hospital on Wednesday.
Since the outbreak of bird flu in Kuwait, 22 people have been admitted to hospital on suspicion of being infected, but later discharged after confirming they were healthy.
The Bangladeshis were part of government teams culling and burying hundreds of thousands of chickens in Wafra, south of Kuwait City on the Saudi border.
Kuwait has culled about 1.7 million birds, most of them egg-laying chickens in four commercial poultry farms, since confirming in February an outbreak of the H5N1 strain of the bird flu virus that is dangerous to humans.
A total of 106 cases of the strain have so far been confirmed in birds.
In November 2005, the Gulf state announced the first case of a bird infected with the H5N1 strain -- a flamingo at a seaside villa.
The H5N1 strain, the most aggressive form, has killed 170 people worldwide, according to WHO, and seen millions of birds destroyed.
H5N1 is an avian influenza subtype with pandemic potential, since it might ultimately adapt into a strain that is contagious among humans.
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