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China: 2nd Bird Flu Death in a Month

Flu Watch News — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:52:55 +0000

A 39-year-old man from the Guizhou province in China fell ill with a fever and was admitted into the hospital on January 6th. The Xinhua news agency reported after three days in intensive care, the patient died.
This is the second H5N1 related death following the December 31, 2011 death of from the city of Shenzhen, bordering Hong Kong. It has been reported that both men had no direct contact with poultry.

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Taiwan Reports H5N2 bird flu: 1st case in 2012

Flu Watch News — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 18:35:52 +0000

The Bureau of Animal and Plant Health Inspection and Quarantine (BAPHIQ), began daily inspections at a farm in Changhua County after rumors that a large number of its chickens had died. On Dec 30, 2011 and Jan 4, 2012 the samples collected tested positive of the H5N2 virus, but the chickens of the farm have not shown any obvious pathological symptoms, the BAPHIQ said.
source:news.asiaone.com

New Swine Flu Strain H3N2v: 12 Infected

Flu Watch News — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 16:16:41 +0000

USNEWS.com is reporting that 12 people living in Indiana, Iowa, Maine, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia.

A report from the Centers for Disease Control say “an influenza A (H1N1) virus that is known to circulate in U.S. swine but not humans has been detected in an adult in the state of Wisconsin. The patient reported occupational contact with swine prior to illness onset. No human-to-human transmission with this virus has been identified.The virus identified in Wisconsin has genes from avian, swine and human influenza viruses, making it a so-called “triple reassortant” (tr) virus. Triple reassortant viruses have been circulating in U.S. swine since the 1990s. However the virus detected in Wisconsin is different from earlier triple reassortant influenza A H1N1 viruses in swine (tr-H1N1) in that it has acquired the matrix [M] gene) from the 2009 influenza A (H1N1) virus.”

Bird Flu Death: Indonesia on High Alert

Flu Watch News — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 15:58:50 +0000

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Indonesia is still struggling not only with the resent earthquake but also the H5N1 virus. A 23-year-old man identified as P.D.Y. died after being treated for six days at Satya Negara Hospital. His blood test came back positive for the H5N1 virus, making him the first victim of bird flu in 2012.
[Read complete story: Jakarta Globe]

WHO confirms H5N1 deaths in Egypt and China

Flu Watch News — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 04:12:03 +0000

The patient from Egypt, a 42-year-old from Menofia governorate, got sick on Dec 16 and was admitted to a hospital in critical condition and treated with oseltamivir (Tamiflu) on Dec 21, the WHO said in a statement. The man died the next day, raising Egypt’s official H5N1 infection total to 157 and the number of deaths from the disease to 55.
The man from China, a 39-year-old from Shenzhen in Guangdong province, came down with flu symptoms on Dec 21 and was hospitalized in critical condition on Dec 25. He died on Dec 31, pushing China’s WHO-confirmed H5N1 cases to 41 and its deaths from the virus to 27. His H5N1 case and death, however, are the country’s first in 2011.

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Hong Kong diagnoses bird flu

Flu Watch News — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 17:16:53 +0000

BBC News

Reports from BBC News state that a woman in Hong Kong is seriously ill in the hospital with bird flu – the first human case of the disease to be diagnosed in the territory since 2003, when the last outbreak of the H5N1 bird flu virus in Hong Kong killed six people.
Health chief York Chow said there was no sign yet that the virus has been spread between humans and that investigations were focusing on poultry as being the source of the infection.
“But we will be concentrating on people who were in contact with her when she showed symptoms and also when she was in Hong Kong,” the AFP news agency quoted him as saying.

Fungus is behind at least 15 deaths in Pacific Northwest

Flu Watch News — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 15:28:21 +0000

A formerly tropical fungus is behind at least 15 deaths in the U.S. Pacific Northwest over six years, health officials say. The fungus, called Cryptococcus gattii, is considered rare. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention described cases of infection in the U.S. since 2004 in its weekly report on death and disease, published online on Friday.

Patients’ symptoms included:

* Cough, 56 per cent.
* Shortness of breath, 51 per cent.
* Headache, 53 per cent.
* Fever, 42 per cent.
* Weight loss, 40 per cent.
* Neck stiffness, 21 per cent.

Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2010/07/23/cryptococcus-fungus-infections-cdc.html#ixzz0unnSCXKD