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Iraqi Woman Dies of Suspected Bird Flu - February 2006

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Mohannad Radi died from tuberculosis...

Mohannad Radi died from tuberculosis...

...althought his pigeons were infected with H5N1...and now there's a bird flu crisis in the province he was from....

Machine translated from Arabic:

The departed young man not injured with the bird flu and Dhi Qar prevents the entrance of the chickens and the table eggs
Baghdad - Dhi Qar - the morning
Feb 15, 2006

The minister of health continues his tour of the governorates for the follow-up of the ministry plan regarding the disease

The general company for the veterinary medicine confirmed that the results of the final examination that were held in the laboratory of the international health in Cairo proved the young man who died in the building last week was not because of the bird flu, while it became clear that the two pigeons that were raising them are injured with the disease while the minister of health continues its tour in the southern governorates for the follow-up of the ministry plan facing the disease. Meanwhile the upper committee prevented for a continuation the bird flu in Dhi Qar governorate is the entrance of the alive and frozen poultry and the table eggs to the governorate. And an assistant said the general manager of the general company is for the veterinary medicine doctor Saadi Hou-Pei is to our delegate Mostafa a glorious that the results of the final examination to the departed young man in Al-Imarah city last week that was held in the World Health Organization laboratory in Cairo and declared yesterday noon, it proved that its death was not the result of its injury by the bird flu disease, but it was because of the tuberculosis sharp and injured with it pointing that the examinations showed the injury of the pigeons that was raising them by the disease virus.

And Hou-Pei clarified that the sample that was sent to the organization laboratory in Egypt the examination reports related to it showed its emptiness from the killing Al Atra (the H5N1) to the bird flu disease and that the death of the young man was the result of its injury sharply by a disease the tuberculosis due to bad circumstances and the difficult ones that were living them within a formed family from twenty individuals is in two rooms in Al Ardat region that was in the past a camp to the army. And the veterinary medicine general manager assistant warned of the submission of the citizens behind the news that he described by the distorted and improvised and lacking the truths regarding the appearance of injuries by the disease or an exaggeration the death cases between the land birds and their description that they are a terrific Hlakat which causes the panic and the fear at the citizens in that region and the near regions ..On the limit of its saying. From its side doctor Abdul Mottaleb Ali Mohamed a minister continued the health is its field visit with the target of the follow-up of the ministry plan regarding the bird flu disease in the governorates all special the southern is being a station to the emigrating birds. And the transfer of our delegate Mahdi Al Tay's cream about an official source in the ministry in a press statement is that the minister of health and a number of the ministry officials inspected the health enterprises in Basra governorate for the knowledge of the level of the medical and health services offered to the citizens there. And he pointed that the minister insinuated with providing the unity of the fevers in the governorate specialized in the interim diseases with the institutions and the necessary medical requirements and the vaccines and the treatments related to the bird flu disease are to be ready to any emergency and expected and to curbing the disease and counting its move.

And through its inspection of Al Shahid Al Sadr's hospital it directed doctor Abdul Muttalib with the necessity of the follow-up of the bird flu disease by all an accuracy and a seriousness and the activation of the operation room role in this field and securing all requirements and the hospital requirements and an incitement through its the meeting of the health Balmlakat with the preservation of the necessity of the citizens enlightenment regarding the protection from the bird flu disease and tightening the supervision on the house birds and the confirmation on the daily reports and the follow-up of the latest developments and the special developments by the disease. And in Dhi Qar the upper committee related to the follow-up of the bird flu disease issued in the governorate instructions it was prevented based on it the entrance of the alive and frozen poultry and the table eggs of the governorate according to what for us our correspondent Hamed reported Al Shtri. And doctor Ali Abdul Hussein the manager of the health supervision in the preservation said to (in the morning) the committee allowed to the poultry fields friends with the sale of the present chickens in their fields and the controlled by the medical examinations every ten days until its exhaustion. And he added that the preservation is free totally from any injury by the disease virus whether that was between the human being or the birds stressing damaging the domestic birds and the bathroom and the domestic birds through the cooperation of the citizens by their delivery to the veterinary hospital in the Nasserism for its burning and its burial is in the specified places therefore.

On the other side the committee denied that it had any role in the measures that the police detachments took towards sale shops the poultry after they called on them through the amplifiers for damaging the birds that they received from the governorate poultry fields. And a source in the committee showed that the measures that the police detachments followed the result of diligence related to them came and was not issued from the committee in the preservation.

http://www.alsabaah.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=18305
 
Amarah, Maysan

Amarah, Maysan

So -- there's now a bird flu crisis in Maysan Province -- but the guy with bird flu symptoms who died (Mohanad Randi) -- and his 5 relatives who were/are sick -- "definitely" were not infected with H5N1.

Hmmmmmmmmm. :re:

I guess I don't have to tell anyone that Maysan borders on Iran, too....
 
Iraqi Health Minister Declares Bird Flu Alert

Iraqi Health Minister Declares Bird Flu Alert

Iraqi Health Minister Declares Bird Flu Alert

Birds Suspected Of Having Flu Discovered



http://www.nbc5.com/health/7081268/detail.html

POSTED: 10:34 am CST February 15, 2006
UPDATED: 10:51 am CST February 15, 2006
<!--startindex-->AMARAH, Iraq -- Iraqi authorities have declared a bird flu alert in a southern province and called for security forces to prevent people from carrying birds in and out of the area, officials said Wednesday. The alert is the latest measure taken by Iraqi health authorities to combat the deadly H5N1 bird flu strain following last month's discovery of the country's only confirmed case of the disease in a human. Minister Abdel Mutalib Mohammed declared the alert after birds suspected of having the disease were discovered in Maysan province, a major southern trade route in Iraq, said Dr. Ibtisam Aziz Ali, spokeswoman for a government committee on bird flu. Mohammed said the government has to "totally close" Maysan using Iraqi soldiers and police and carry out culling of poultry. He held talks late Tuesday with local health authorities and tribal sheiks in Amarah, 180 miles southeast of Baghdad, to brief them on the bird flu threat and government measures to combat it. "The disease has apparently spread among local birds, not migratory birds," Mohammed said. "I have seen five centers where infections have been detected by rapid laboratory testing. Now we have declared a state of health alert." Maysan includes some of Iraq's famous marshlands, and U.S. and U.N. officials fear the deadly disease could spread rapidly if it reaches the area rich in bird life. Mohammed will formally announce the alert later Wednesday in Amarah, where a team of experts from the World Health Organization is expected to visit. Bird flu has killed at least 91 people since 2003, according to the World Health Organization. Almost all the human deaths have been linked to contact with infected poultry, but experts fear the H5N1 virus could mutate into a form that spreads easily among people, possibly sparking a pandemic. Tests are being carried out at a WHO-approved lab in Egypt on samples taken from about 10 suspect human cases in Iraq, including the dead uncle of a girl who died Jan. 17 of the disease in Iraq's northern Kurdistan region. Among the samples are those taken from an Amarah man who owned birds and died earlier this month. Five of his relatives were also hospitalized with flu-like symptoms, but Iraqi officials have said since they do not suspect they had H5N1. The WHO team arrived in Iraq on Feb. 4, traveling extensively throughout Kurdistan to learn how the disease was introduced to the country, promote ways to treat it and prevent its spread. Experts believe the disease was introduced to Iraq by migratory birds, which follow a southward path through Kurdistan along the Euphrates and Tigris rivers to the southern marshlands, before continuing into Kuwait and Africa.<!--stopindex-->
 
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Re: Iraq Quarantines Bird-Flu Region in South

Re: Iraq Quarantines Bird-Flu Region in South

Missan is also known as Maysan. Province Number 5.


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  1. Baghdad Arab, Turkman, Kurdish
  2. Salah ad Din Arab, Kurdish
  3. Diyala Arab, Kurdish
  4. Wasit Arab
  5. Maysan Arab
  6. Al Basrah Arab
  7. Dhi Qar Arab
  8. Al Muthanna Arab
  9. Al Qadisyah Arab
  10. Babil Arab
  11. Al Karbala Arab
  12. An Najaf Arab
  13. Al Anbar Arab
  14. Ninawa Arab, Assyrian, Kurdish
  15. Dahuk Kurdish
  16. Arbil Kurdish
  17. At Ta'mim Arab, Turkman, Kurdish
  18. As Sulaymaniyah Kurdish
 
Bird flu tied to second death in Iraq

Bird flu tied to second death in Iraq

Bird flu tied to second death in Iraq

BAGHDAD, Iraq A second death in Iraq has been linked to bird flu.
A U-S official says the victim was the uncle of an Iraqi girl who died last month after contracting the deadly H-five-N-one strain. The man died ten days later.

The official says a U-N-certified laboratory in Egypt determined that the man also was infected with bird flu. But that finding will have to be confirmed by a lab in London before the case is certified by the World Health Organization.

The W-H-O says at least 91 people in Asia and Turkey have died from bird flu since 2003. Almost all the human deaths have been linked directly to contact with contaminated poultry. But health officials warn that H-five-N-one could mutate and cause a human flu pandemic.

http://www.kristv.com/Global/story.asp?S=4512692
 
Re: Bird flu tied to second death in Iraq

Re: Bird flu tied to second death in Iraq

Add this to your search string.

H-five-N-one
 
Bird Flu Alert Declared in Southern Iraq

Bird Flu Alert Declared in Southern Iraq

Update 2: Bird Flu Alert Declared in Southern Iraq

By HAIDER HANI , 02.15.2006, 02:18 PM
http://www.forbes.com/technology/ebusiness/feeds/ap/2006/02/15/ap2529421.html

Iraqi authorities have declared a bird flu alert in a southern province and called for security forces to prevent people from carrying birds in and out of the area, officials said Wednesday.

The alert is the latest measure taken by Iraqi health authorities to combat the deadly H5N1 bird flu strain following last month's discovery of the country's only confirmed case of the disease in a human.

Minister Abdel Mutalib Mohammed declared the alert after birds suspected of having the disease were discovered in Maysan province, a major southern trade route in Iraq, said Dr. Ibtisam Aziz Ali, spokeswoman for a government committee on bird flu.

Mohammed said the government has to "totally close" Maysan using Iraqi soldiers and police and carry out culling of poultry. He held talks late Tuesday with local health authorities and tribal sheiks in Amarah, 180 miles southeast of Baghdad, to brief them on the bird flu threat and government measures to combat it.

"The disease has apparently spread among local birds, not migratory birds," Mohammed said. "I have seen five centers where infections have been detected by rapid laboratory testing. Now we have declared a state of health alert."

Maysan includes some of Iraq's famous marshlands, and U.S. and U.N. officials fear the deadly disease could spread rapidly if it reaches the area rich in bird life.

Mohammed will formally announce the alert later Wednesday in Amarah, where a team of experts from the World Health Organization is expected to visit.

Bird flu has killed at least 91 people since 2003, according to the World Health Organization. Almost all the human deaths have been linked to contact with infected poultry, but experts fear the H5N1 virus could mutate into a form that spreads easily among people, possibly sparking a pandemic.

Tests are being carried out at a WHO-approved lab in Egypt on samples taken from about 10 suspect human cases in Iraq, including the dead uncle of a girl who died Jan. 17 of the disease in Iraq's northern Kurdistan region.

Among the samples are those taken from an Amarah man who owned birds and died earlier this month. Five of his relatives were also hospitalized with flu-like symptoms, but Iraqi officials have said since they do not suspect they had H5N1.

The WHO team arrived in Iraq on Feb. 4, traveling extensively throughout Kurdistan to learn how the disease was introduced to the country, promote ways to treat it and prevent its spread.

Experts believe the disease was introduced to Iraq by migratory birds, which follow a southward path through Kurdistan along the Euphrates and Tigris rivers to the southern marshlands, before continuing into Kuwait and Africa.
 
The quarantining of Maysan

The quarantining of Maysan

There's no date on this article, but I believe it's from the paper's Feb 15th edition (which is the date of other articles related to the quarantining of Maysan province). This article seems to say that the decision to quarantine Maysan was made after it was reconfirmed that Mohanad Randi's birds (pigeons) had, in fact, been infected with H5N1. Mohanad Randi...you know...the guy who didn't die from H5N1....

BTW - the bird flu reports in Iraqi papers have completely dried up. I've been searching for انفلونزا الطيور (bf) in all the Iraqi papers I can find and I come up with nothing -- except for the occasional reports about Egypt.

Machine translated from Arabic:

He rushed from within the city and he is not from the marshes

The bird flu disease kills in Maysan and the health authorities stop an incapable
A report / Uday Al Mokhtar

Its publicity of Al Touara state in Maysan Ithr the contact that took place between Adel Mhouder Maysan governor and the general company manager for the veterinary medicine in Baghdad that confirmed the discovery of the bird flu disease in Maysan and the governor has confirmed that the examinations that she was held on the samples that were taken from young man Mohannad Radi's house that was dead after an inability by the respiratory system and that doubted with its death of the department of Maysan health it proved that the birds that were taken from its house of bearing the disease of the bird flu. And he said "therefore we We declare the state of emergency and declare that Messan Governate is an affected region". And the responsible institutions have taken all the necessary measures for the isolation of the affected regions while confirmed a health source an official that the number of the injuries at the human rose to (5) persons have been isolated in the Fever Hospital.

http://www.ahali-iraq.com/viewarticle.php?id=6155&pg=index&art=rp
 
WHO delegation went to Maysan (Amarah) on Sunday

WHO delegation went to Maysan (Amarah) on Sunday

Machine translated from Arabic:

The first : the World Health Organization delegation visits Maysan for the limitation of the spread of the bird flu
Feb 20, 2006

A delegation visited from the World Health Organization Messan Governate yesterday Sunday for the study of offering aid and the aid for the limitation of a spread the disease of the influenza of the preservation Al Tiorfa.

And the upper Gamal said the media spokesman in the name of the health of Maysan yesterday Sunday: "The visit of the delegation the response to the call of the governor of the engineer Maysan of the Malki Adel Mhouder comes to the human organizations for offering the aid for fear of the spread of the disease between the birds and its outbreak between the citizens". And he added: "The health delegation who it headed is doctor Naima Al Kasir that will go days several in Maysan to a research the requirements of the control on this disease and the limitation of its spread". And he clarified: "My organization the international health and Al Faw with waiting the final results from their actors about the health situations in Al-Imarah city for the evaluation of the state and hence the direct with taking the practical measures for the eradication of the disease.

http://www.kululiraq.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=20819
 
"Five foci" of bird flu in Maysan

"Five foci" of bird flu in Maysan

Machine translated from Arabic:

The news: the minister of health visits Maysan after finding five foci to the bird flu
Feb 20, 2006

Doctor Abdul Mottaleb Ali Mohamed the minister of health held a meeting to the medical and veterinary cadres through its visit to Maysan that the governorate council vice-president and a number of councillors and Maysan police chief attended, and the minister of health believed that there are five foci for the injury by the bird flu in Messan Governate that took place its discovery and its diagnosis are laboratory and clarified that it is after the knowledge of the injuries map in the preservation he found that the injury is widespread in all the population regions between the local birds that he was brought up inside the citizens houses in the governorate that she is now in case of a health warning 100% and we will take the measures with their closure finally in cooperation with the security institutions in the governorate and making dusty the entrants and the rebels from the preservation and the destruction of the birds in them. And he pointed to the allocation of sum of 250 million dinars from the ministry budget will be put at the disposal of the Health Department in the governorate who the term of its investment in the fields of the resistance to the bird flu disease in addition to bringing quantity of the treatment of Al Tamflou the anti- virus.

http://www.kululiraq.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=20858
 
HCWs strike in Iraq...

HCWs strike in Iraq...

Machine translated from Arabic:

A strike with the health professions in Dhi Qar
The Nasserism - the building - the morning
Feb 23, 2006

And their colleagues in Maysan join the bird flu fighting groups

The strike that executed it with the health professions about the work in Dhi Qar to the hindrance of offering the medical services did to the citizens in the health enterprises in the governorate, while their colleagues in Maysan stopped their sit-in and joined to the health groups assigned to fighting the bird flu disease.

And a statement issued from the department of Dhi Qar health said that got "the morning" on a copy from it that the department affiliates from with the health professions they executed an open strike and by the ratio of 100% except a simple presence in the emergencies and the halls and in the time that it confirmed in it the statement the right of these with their asking the government with the calculation of the seriousness allowances as by the doctors and the pharmacists the affiliates called for the taking by the consideration essence the human side and ending this strike to what for it from negative reflections on the society and its tax of the attitude to the health enterprises and the statement called on the religious and governmental authorities and the media and political ones for the adoption of these demands and their referral to the authorities with the relation and asking the strikers for the expression of their demands by the means of the other least harm in the society. On the other hand the affiliates confirmed that the strike did not include the halls of emergencies and revival confirming their care for offering the services to the citizens a feeling from them of their human duty not biased to any direction confirming the legitimacy of their demands is suppliant the government and the ministry it took their demands into the view of the consideration and finding the solutions the fast. And in Maysan with the health professions ended their sit-in and joined the health groups assigned to the operation of fighting the bird flu disease, after the meeting that took place between the governorate council and a delegation from a syndicate with the health professions in the governorate, and it copied our correspondent in the governorate: the president of Messan Governate council and the count of the strikers are with the settlement of their issue the legitimate assuming that they contribute to the greatest campaign for fighting the bird flu disease where the national and human duty and the moral one calls for the importance of the contribution in an operation the eradication of this disease that breaks into the governorate sons after their putting under the quarantine, and it confirmed the council president: a request is regarding the inclusion of an Al Mlakat the health and the nursing by the seriousness allowances he has referred to the Cabinet, as that a delegation from the council and representatives from a syndicate with the health professions in the preservation will meet doctor Al-Jaafari for the settlement of those allowances topic as by the doctors but the council president called these strikers by that the opportunity of the participation does not miss them in this noble human duty. From their side the strikers showed from the health Al Mlakat and the nursing one the whole of their readiness for the joining within the health groups assigned to the campaign of the protection from the bird flu disease for the sake of cleansing the governorate from this epidemic. Mentions that a syndicate with the health professions the general center have called in a statement for a general sit-in Lmlakatha and throughout three days and in case of the non response of their demands the sit-in will turn to a general and complete strike in all the health enterprises in Iraq.

http://www.alsabaah.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=18783
 
From the Ministry of Truth...

From the Ministry of Truth...

Okay, okay...so it's the Ministry of Health. But, it sure sounds like the Ministry of Truth...!

Machine translated from Arabic:

The Minister of Health: beware from the biased rumors about the bird flu
Baghdad - the morning
Feb 22, 2006

Two states in Iraq only and the situation controlled on it totally

Minister of Health doctor Abdul Mottaleb Mohamed Ali warned of the rumors that surround the bird flu disease that tries biased from it are the propagation of the panic between the people, certain that the ministry controls the situation totally and there a danger is not afflicting in Iraq,

And he clarified that the new plan spends with the declaration of the medical warning in any governorate that the doctors doubt [suspect] the presence of injuries in it. And the minister in a talk clarified to "the morning" that two states from the disease signed in Iraq only that led to the death of a girl and its uncle in As-Sulaymaniyah, while not is the disease behind the death of a young man in Maysan was the suspicions hovering because of its hobby by the aviculture. [And by the fact that his pigeons were H5N1 confirmed....]

And the health authorities have doubted [suspected] the occurrence of ten injuries but the minister of health said the patients go you two weeks without complications are what confirms that they are injured by ordinary diseases. [!!] And the ministry takes that enclose it medical and stressing the avoidance of injuries occurrence or the permission for the spread of the disease, and the minister of health said that it maintains in a library 50 thousand doses against the disease he is not used from it except three doses only, this in addition to the support of some governorates by 900 million dollars for the rectification of the emergencies and taking the necessary measures. And he clarified that the new plan spends with the declaration of the health warning in the governorate that appears in it the doubts [suspicions] are what requires to counting the disease and its curbing and the prevention of its spread. And a request from the governors the necessary aid and the non exaggeration, and leaving the health headquarters they make by the scientific means.

And while the citizens report news and stories about injuries fearfully the request of the minister the non listening to like this the news that he described by the biased rumors and behind which biased stand he said that they try broadcasting fear and worry between the people. And he denied that any citizen has been injured by the bird flu disease in Baghdad as he was spread in some of the regions, and he confirmed that the hospitals did not receive any state. And he hinted that the caution about the disease and the apprehension are from it making the citizens they doubt [suspect] the patients who are injured by diseases with features and similar symptoms. And the Ministry of Health issues a statement daily by any latest developments cause and in the statement that the doctor declared Aziz's smiling the spokeswoman did not appear the bird flu committee what points to the occurrence of new injuries.
And the statement said the taken measures and the recommendations that she are presented for the protection from the disease and the prevention of its spread and that the committee she agreed on a mechanism for the compensation of the victims from the application of those measures and called for the non turn to the rumors and news the non-accurate. And the doctor informed Aziz's smiling "the morning" that the committee does not hide any information, and he requests from the citizens the notification of the health authorities about any doubts, and they said: the situation is dominant on it in Iraq and no thing there calls to the fear, but we request from the citizens that they take the eggs and the chickens on condition of their cooking by a high temperature. And she said prophylaxis is the non mixture with the poultry. And minister of health doctor Abdul Mottaleb Mohamed Ali visited As-Sulaymaniyah and the regions that the presences of the disease were spread in it. And he said to "the morning" it understood in the field the measures that can be taken in the suitable time.

At this time the Ministry of Education executes a wide preventive campaign for the protection of 6 millions students and that through an operation room that makes Round-the-clock. And doctor Abd said that the farmer is the Sudanese Hassan the Minister of Education in a press statement is that the ministry decided the start of a big campaign for the protection from the disease for the protection of the schools students is in the different stages in coordination with the headquarters the health in Baghdad and the governorates, pointing that the campaign concentrates on the regions that doubt [suspects] the presence of injuries in it in cooperation with the concerned ministries with the target of putting the solutions and the instant treatments for the protection in the schools and the students gathering sites their being they represent human gatherings that must be protected from the danger of the disease with taking early steps. And he added that the ministry its general departments in Baghdad and the governorates informed by specific directing for the execution of the campaign they include the enlightenment of the pupils and the students continuously and their guidance with the remoteness from the danger sources and the disease move ways is from the house and emigrating birds and he sprayed the schools with the insecticides and the doubtful sterilization of the places. And the Sudanese doctor drew that the ministry granted wide authorities of the educational officials in the regions that recorded in them injuries between the birds for taking measures a fast in coordination with administrators and the health ones in their regions for curbing any emergency state in an instant way.

http://www.alsabaah.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=18696
 
Bird flu suspected in village 180km south of Soulaimaniyah

Bird flu suspected in village 180km south of Soulaimaniyah

babelfished from French:

A hearth of aviary influenza suspect? in the south of Soulaimiyah
SOULAIMANIYAH, 22 f?v 2006 (AFP) - 14h47

An aviary hearth of influenza is suspect? to 180 km in the south of Soulaimaniyah, in Iraqi Kurdistan, after the death of 250 domestic birds died in the village of Jao Khaled, indicated to Wednesday the chief of the fight against the aviary influenza, in the area, Tahsine Namek.

"Of the samples were sent for analysis in Soulaimiyah and Baghdad, and we suspect the presence of the stock mortal of the aviary influenza, virus H5N1", indicated this Kurdish person in charge.

A medical cord was imposed on the village to prevent the expansion of epizooty, it added.

Iraq announced in January two human cases of aviary influenza of type H5N1. These cases which resulted in the death of a 14 year old teenager and his/her uncle, were localised in the mountain of Rania, in the north of Soulaimaniyah.

http://www.institutkurde.org/afp/?s...rancais/topics/actu/060222144722.8wxton2x.xml
 
Possible new case of human bird flu in Iraq: WHO

Possible new case of human bird flu in Iraq: WHO

http://www.turkishpress.com/news.asp?id=109539

Possible new case of human bird flu in Iraq: WHO
Published: 2/24/2006

GENEVA - Health officials in Iraq are investigating a possible new human case of bird flu in the country's northeast, a UN expert said Friday.

Dr Naeema al-Gasseer, the World Health Organisation's representative in Iraq, told journalists that the suspected case of the highly pathogenic H5N1 virus was reported in Kifri, in Diyala province near the border with Iran.

Al-Gasseer, who was speaking during a telephone briefing, did not give further details about the patient or his or her state of health.

A handful of suspect cases have been probed in Iraq since the virus struck at the start of the year.

Officials say H5N1 has killed two people there: a teenage girl and her uncle, who both lived near Sulaimaniyah, in the country's northern Kurdistan region.

Al-Gasseer said that both had caught the virus from sick birds, not each other.

There has so far been no human-to-human transmission of H5N1, which has claimed some 92 lives, mostly in Vietnam, Indonesia and Thailand, since resurfacing among birds in 2003.

Experts are concerned that if human-to-human transmission occurs, it could signal that the virus has mutated and that a human flu pandemic is on it way, like those which claimed millions of lives in the past.

Al-Gasseer also said that two new outbreaks of the broad H5 category of avian influenza have been detected among poultry in Iraq: one in Diyala province and the other in Sulaimaniyah province.

Local authorities have begun slaughtering all poultry in the latter region and virus samples are on their way to a laboratory, she said.

02/24/2006 17:25 GMT
 
Re: Possible new case of human bird flu in Iraq: WHO

Re: Possible new case of human bird flu in Iraq: WHO

I wonder if this is bird to human or human to human of the H5N1 having S227N and E627K. Perhaps the Turkish tamiflu blanket, if there was one, minimized propogation of that version of H5N1.
 
Iraq: Possible new case of human bird flu.

Iraq: Possible new case of human bird flu.

Possible new case of human bird flu in Iraq: WHO

Published: 2/24/2006
GENEVA - Health officials in Iraq are investigating a possible new human case of bird flu in the country's northeast, a UN expert said Friday. Dr Naeema al-Gasseer, the World Health Organisation's representative in Iraq, told journalists that the suspected case of the highly pathogenic H5N1 virus was reported in Kifri, in Diyala province near the border with Iran.
Al-Gasseer, who was speaking during a telephone briefing, did not give further details about the patient or his or her state of health.
A handful of suspect cases have been probed in Iraq since the virus struck at the start of the year.
Officials say H5N1 has killed two people there: a teenage girl and her uncle, who both lived near Sulaimaniyah, in the country's northern Kurdistan region.
Al-Gasseer said that both had caught the virus from sick birds, not each other.

There has so far been no human-to-human transmission of H5N1, which has claimed some 92 lives, mostly in Vietnam, Indonesia and Thailand, since resurfacing among birds in 2003.
Experts are concerned that if human-to-human transmission occurs, it could signal that the virus has mutated and that a human flu pandemic is on it way, like those which claimed millions of lives in the past.
Al-Gasseer also said that two new outbreaks of the broad H5 category of avian influenza have been detected among poultry in Iraq: one in Diyala province and the other in Sulaimaniyah province.
Local authorities have begun slaughtering all poultry in the latter region and virus samples are on their way to a laboratory, she said.

02/24/2006 17:25 GMT




http://www.turkishpress.com/news.asp?id=109539
 
Re: Iraq: Possible new case of human bird flu.

Re: Iraq: Possible new case of human bird flu.

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Washington
24 February 2006



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The World Health Organization (WHO) reports a possible third human case of bird flu in Iraq following the deaths of two people from the disease in the northern part of the country last month. Agency officials have allayed fears that the two earlier cases occurred because of transmission among humans.

World Health Organization officials say Iraqi health authorities have reported a suspected case of H5N1 bird flu in the region of Diyala, north of Baghdad. The WHO representative in Iraq, Dr. Naeema al-Gasseer, says the potential case has emerged from a recent poultry outbreak there. Iraqi officials are sending samples of the suspected virus to a WHO laboratory to verify the suspicion.

So far, there have been just two confirmed human bird flu cases in Iraq, a 15 year old girl and her uncle, both of whom died last month in the northern province of Sulaimaniya. Al-Gasseer told reporters by telephone from Geneva that those fatal cases were contracted by the handling of poultry and not caught from another person, the path that health officials fear could set off a global pandemic.

"There was a concern by the public in Iraq, by the government in Iraq, and by the media that possibly there has been a kind of human-to-human transmission," said Dr. al-Gasseer. "Our finding is that this was not a human-to-human transmission. The case investigation showed that both the young woman and her uncle had come in touch with poultry that possibly were infected."

The Iraqi province in which the bird flu deaths occurred last month is close to the Turkish border. WHO Global Influenza Program official Michael Perdue, says the agency's laboratory studies of the viral strain taken from the victims indicate that it is the same one seen in people in Turkey.

"Certainly, the human isolates look like the human isolates from Turkey," he said. "So it's probably a reflection of this virus in the last few months having arrived possibly from Asia via migratory birds. The evidence for this possibility is growing in Europe, where we now know that nine different countries at least have identified H5N1 in wild birds that have been picked up on beaches and in waterfowl areas."

Perdue and Al-Gasseer spoke after leading a team of United Nations health and veterinary officials to Iraq to assess the measures the country is taking to control bird flu. Al-Gasseer praised the work the government and regional officials are doing, especially in establishing a special fund to deal with outbreaks and in killing infected poultry. But she notes that many of the birds are culled on small backyard farms, removing a source of food and income for their owners. She says there is a great need to develop a way to compensate these small poultry farmers for their losses.
 
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I notice the person taking the swab is not wearing gloves.
 
Rumors of bf deaths in Al Qadisyah province in the south

Rumors of bf deaths in Al Qadisyah province in the south

Al Diwania is the capital of Al Qadisyah province, which is here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Qadisyah

Machine translated from Arabic:

Amid the fears of its spread that hesitated between the city citizens
Feb 22, 2006
Al Diwania governorate takes precautionary measures for the avoidance of the danger of the bird flu
And the officials refute the rumours that were launched recently
Al Diwania _ in the name of an imprisonment

She was still a rumour recording several injuries by the birds influenza disease in the governorate and that was launched before more than two weeks the talk of the divan street in spite of its refutation from the officials in the governorate but the last days testified another rumour benefits with the injury of one of women from Al Dghara justice by the birds influenza disease and the death of two others by this the disease (the families) of the fact-finding she held meetings with citizens and officials in the governorate. He was first speaking the citizen (a great cream is Al Badri 45 years) cloths merchant in the merchants market says before three days that came for me one of the customers and said that want a black Dshdasha and not they asked them about the other customer who was always coming with her then said have she was dead after its exposure to the bird flu disease that moved to it from one of the poultry. And its family has found her face (a blue) in in the morning the following day and after its transfer to the hospital have been notified of its injury with the disease virus.

But doctor Aziz the money of the Allah of the veterinary hospital manager in Al Diwania denied and strongly this rumour confirming the non recording any injury in the governorate and that the rumour that shot not right as refuted a rumour that injured one of the workers in the governorate poultry by this disease. And he pointed to the measures that the hospital took and in cooperation with the health authorities the other and the officials in the governorate for the confrontation of the matter.

From its side the doctor (Nedaa Abdul Hussein) said the doctors president in Al Diwania hospital "till this moment it did not record any injury by this disease" and what frequents denied confirming that the health and preventive cautions move according to what is planned to it. Mr. Mohamed Abdul Hassan the councillor of Al Diwania governorate said that the governorate took precautionary and preventive measures stressing the avoidance of the danger of the bird flu disease as the formation of a central operations room and subsidiary rooms took place in all of the units the health in the governorate for the confrontation of the disease and prevention of the probability of the virus move between the birds. Pointing to taking examinations laboratory and fast to the poultry fields for the sake of the follow-up of the disease.

http://www.ahali-iraq.com/viewarticle.php?id=6208&pg=index&art=rp
 
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