Iran rejects reports of human bird flu cases ( details of possible case contained)

[Susie]

Iran rejects reports of human bird flu cases


http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3255621,00.html



Iran's Health Ministry said on Saturday the country had no human cases of the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus, dismissing statements by a medical official and lawmaker that early tests showed a third person had died of it.


A senior medical official told Reuters on condition of anonymity that preliminary tests in the northwestern city of Kermanshah showed a 30-year-old man died on Wednesday morning from H5N1 bird flu. He said this would be the third death after a 41-year-old man and his 26-year-old sister were also shown by preliminary tests to have died of bird flu in Kermanshah, which lies some 100 km (60 miles) from the Iraqi border. (Reuters)



(05.27.06, 16:27)

(I suppose it's the person mentioned in an earlier report as being unconscious)

 

[Bruce]

Re: Iran rejects reports of human bird flu cases ( details of possible case contained

Re: Iran rejects reports of human bird flu cases ( details of possible case contained

No human cases of bird flu - Iran officials

Tehran - Iran's Health Ministry said on Saturday the country had no human cases of the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus, dismissing statements by a medical official and lawmaker that early tests showed a third person had died of it.

A senior medical official told Reuters on condition of anonymity that preliminary tests in the northwestern city of Kermanshah showed a 30-year-old man died on Wednesday morning from H5N1 bird flu.

He said this would be the third death after a 41-year-old man and his 26-year-old sister were also shown by preliminary tests to have died of bird flu in Kermanshah, which lies some 100km from the Iraqi border.

Kermanshah's parliamentarian Jahanbakhsh Amini was quoted by the Etemade Melli newspaper as saying: "Preliminary tests on three members of a family who died in a suspicious manner in Kermanshah were positive."

However, Amini told Reuters these samples were then sent to Tehran where laboratories reported they were negative.

The Health Ministry said no "credible" tests had delivered a positive result on H5N1.

"The Health Ministry denies any news of bird flu cases in Kermanshah," it said in a statement.

Amini said samples would have to be sent abroad for checks by the World Health Organisation (WHO) to end the confusion.

The WHO said on Thursday it had asked Iran for details on the tests run on two dead pneumonia patients that the government said were negative for H5N1.

However, Iranian officials said it was untrue that the WHO was seeking more details.

Iran's neighbours Turkey, Iraq and Azerbaijan have all reported deaths from the H5N1 virus in recent months but Tehran says it has so far found no human cases.

"Although in the initial phases one of the diagnoses was bird flu, we could not spread terror among the people by saying it was 100 percent certain that it was bird flu," Amini said.

The medical official said Roche AG's Tamiflu bird flu treatment was being given to all staff at the hospital where the three died.

If confirmed in western Iran, human H5N1 would come as a big blow.

Iran's poultry industry employs 600 000 people directly but the Union of Chicken Meat Farmers says as many as three million people are dependent on the fowl trade. A commercial cull would be devastating.

Iran's provinces along the Turkish and Iraqi borders are already simmering with social and ethnic discontent from minorities such as the Arabs, Kurds and Azeris.

Iran first reported H5N1 in February, when the virus was found in wild swans.

The H5N1 virus remains mainly a virus of birds, but experts fear it could change into a form easily transmitted from person to person and sweep the world, killing millions within weeks or months.

http://www.int.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=31&art_id=qw1148734621273B216


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[Sharpe]

Re: Iran rejects reports of human bird flu cases ( details of possible case contained

Re: Iran rejects reports of human bird flu cases ( details of possible case contained

Iran is apparently exterminating chickens somewhere. I suspect it is in the Kermanshah area and they may be referring in this short article to the situation in neighboring Iraq. In light of the suspicious pneumonia cluster that local doctors said were positive for H5N1, it may be a good thing. When they say that bird flu has not been detected in Iran, I suppose they're referring to poultry, because they already confirmed dead swans to be infected on the Caspian--see below.


http://www.isna.ir/Main/NewsView.aspx?ID=News-745075&Lang=E
Bird Flu Measures in Iran due to Critical Neighbors Conditions

ISNA - Tehran
Service: Health and Care

TEHRAN, July 02 (ISNA)-Iran's Veterinary Organization chief announced that this organization's harsh taken measures within the country were due to critical bird flu conditions in neighboring countries.

"The exterminations are mostly because we have not received adequate information from our neighbors who according to international reports are currently fighting against bird flu," said Hussein Hassani.

Hassani also assured that there had been no sign of this flu witnessed in Iran and that this organization was ready to take any necessary action against suspected cases.

Wild Swans In Iran Found With Bird Flu

14 February 2006 -- Iranian authorities today said that the H5 strain of bird flu has been detected in 135 wild swans in the Anzali wetlands in the north of the country.

The results have reportedly been confirmed by international laboratories.

Tests are now being conducted to ascertain whether the birds had the H5N1 strain that is sometimes lethal for humans.

This is the first official incidence of bird flu in Iran. Iranian authorities said the infections came to light when they took precautions against bird flu following the discovery of the disease in areas of Turkey bordering Iran.

(ISNA, Reuters, dpa)

 

[Mellie]

Re: Iran rejects reports of human bird flu cases ( details of possible case contained

Re: Iran rejects reports of human bird flu cases ( details of possible case contained

I think they were referring to two human deaths in late May... lemme see... This article came out and was followed within the week with a statement they had tested negative for BF.

Here's the old article from May 22, 2006: http://orange.advfn.com/news_Two-dead-with-signs-of-bird-flu-symptoms-in-Iran_15516698.html

Two dead with signs of bird flu symptoms in Iran

TEHRAN (AFX) - Two people have died in Iran showing possible symptoms of the bird flu virus, a health official in the northwestern province of Kermanshah said, quoted by the news agency ISNA.

"Four people have been hospitalised, among them a woman and her husband who have died. There are suspicions of bird flu symptoms," said the head of the university hospital in the city.

newsdesk@afxnews.com

 

[AlaskaDenise]

Re: Iran rejects reports of human bird flu cases ( details of possible case contained)

for those of us who like maps(violet dots are from January data):
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