BLOOMBERG: Bird Flu Kills Boy in Indonesia, Infects Two, Ministry SaysBird flu killed a nine-year-old boy in Indonesia and the H5N1 strain of virus had infected another two people [SOME REPORTS SAY 4], the Health Ministry said in a statement today.
The boy from Depok, south of Jakarta, died yesterday at Sulianti Saroso Hospital after failing to respond to four days of treatment, the ministry said. His death marked the Southeast Asian nation's 99th fatality from the avian influenza virus, more than any other country.
``The team is heading to the neighborhood to find out how he may have contracted the disease,'' Joko Suyono, an official at the ministry's avian flu center, said by phone today.
THINGS ARE GETTING WORSE:
- MORE WILD BIRDS;
- MORE POULTRY;
- MORE PARTS OF THE WORLD;
- MORE HUMANS GETTING SICK WITH NO KNOWN CONTACT WITH SICK BIRD - 25% ACCORDING TO WHO.
BRACE YOURSELF....
Spread of avian flu by drinking water
ReplyDeleteThere is a widespread link between avian flu and water, e.g. in Egypt to the Nile delta or Indonesia to residential districts of less prosperous humans with backyard flocks and without central water supply as in Vietnam. Transmission of avian flu by direct contact to infected poultry is an unproved assumption from the WHO. Infected poultry can everywhere contaminate the drinking water. All humans have contact to drinking water. Special in cases of local water supplies this pathway can explain small clusters in households. In hot climates/tropics the flood-related influenza is typical after extreme weather and floods. Virulence of Influenza virus depends on temperature and time. If young and fresh H5N1 contaminated water from low local wells, cisterns, tanks, rain barrels or rice fields is used for water supply water temperature for infection may be higher (at 24°C the virulence of influenza viruses amount to 2 days) as in temperate climates (for “older” water from central water supplies cold water is decisive to virulence of viruses: at 7°C the virulence of influenza viruses amount to 14 days).
Dipl.-Ing. Wilfried Soddemann
soddemann-aachen@t-online.de
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/EID/vol12no12/06-0829.htm
http://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/emerging/h5n1background.pdf
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473309907700294/abstract?iseop=true
we've posted on this.
ReplyDeleteit is rude for you to post this same thing to EVERY single post i put up about bird flu.
lay off.
or fuck off. whatever.