Azeribajan Cases

[Susie]

http://www.interfax.ru/e/B/politics/...issue=11484016

Teenager taken to Baku hospital with suspected bird flu

BAKU. March 23 (Interfax) - A teenager has been hospitalized in Baku with suspected bird flu, the Azerbaijani Health Ministry press service told Interfax on Thursday.

"A fifteen-year-old girl from the Salyan district was taken to Baku's Clinic No. 2 with suspected bird flu," press service head Samaya Mamedova said.

The condition of the patient is serious but stable, she said.

Another patient with suspected bird flu has recovered and been discharged from hospital, Mamedova said.

[Sally Furniss]

Re: New human case in Azerbaijan

State of 15-year girl suspected of Bird flu is stable
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<table border="0" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="3" width="100%"><tbody><tr> <td background="/images/dash.gif"></td></tr></tbody></table> The state of 15-year old Azerbaijani girl, hospitalized with bird flu suspicion, is stabile, Samaya Mammadova, the head of the press service of the Health Ministry, informs.

<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td class="normal3"> According to Trend, the patient undergoes treatment at the Baku Clinical Children's Hospital#2. "She is under permanent control of doctors," the Health Ministry official underlined.
The World Health Organization's research in London confirmed existence of the virus H5N1 in the villages Dayikend and Sarvan, Salyan region, Beyim-Sarov village, Tartar region. 5 from 7 bird flu-diseased people died. 10-year old boy, the resident of the Dayikend village, left hospital in relation to recovery.
WHO specialists, arrived in Baku, and the employees of the Health Ministry carry out joint work.
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[Sally Furniss]

Azeri girl, 16, treated for suspected bird flu

BAKU, March 30 (Reuters) - Local scientists have found a strain of bird flu in a 16-year-old girl from a family in Azerbaijan which has lost three members to the H5N1 virus, Deputy Health Minister Ali Insanov said on Thursday. "To confirm the presence of the virus, we intend to send samples to the laboratory in London. But clinical observation shows this girl has bird flu," Insanov told Reuters. Five young people, three of them from the Askerov family, have died from bird flu in Azerbaijan. But the girl, who is now in hospital, is the first new case of suspected infection since the first week of this month. Insanov said the girl had probably caught the virus via the same route as her other family members, who are thought to have been infected while plucking feathers from dead swans. The World Health Organisation has said in the past it believes the Azeri laboratory is reliable but it also sends samples to a WHO-accredited laboratory in Britain for confirmation.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L30358680.htm

[HenryN]

Re: Azeri girl, 16, treated for suspected bird flu

Commentary at

http://www.recombinomics.com/News/03300601/H5N1_Azerbaijan_Cluster_Grows.html

[Mellie]

Re: Azeri girl, 16, treated for suspected bird flu

H5N1 Bird Flu Familial Cluster in Azerbaijan Grows

Recombinomics Commentary
March 30, 2006

Five young people, three of them from the Askerov family, have died from bird flu in Azerbaijan. But the girl, who is now in hospital, is the first new case of suspected infection since the first week of this month.

Velibeyov said the girl had probably caught the virus via the same route as her other family members, who are thought to have been infected while plucking feathers from dead swans.

The above comments on another H5N1 bird flu case in the Askerov family raise additional concerns about WHO assurances and analysis. In addition to three family members who have died, a close friend was also fatality infected with H5N1. Comments on the origin of the infections fail to account for infections over an extended time frame.

The index case in the cluster died on Feb 23. Her cousins and friend died between March 3 and March 10. Now a fifth person has been hospitalized and is still alive on March 30. The extended time frame of this cluster is more consistent with human-to-human transmission than a common source that produces disease over such a long time frame.

Human-to-human transmission of H5N1 among family members is quite common and is linked to the majority of reported cases. The size of these clusters increased dramatically in Turkey. S227N was isolated from the index case in that cluster, raising the possibility of genetic changes that increase the efficiency of human-to-human transmission.

That cluster was geographically close to the current cluster in Azerbaijan and raises the possibility that this change or a similar change has increased the efficiency of H5N1 to humans. The transmission of H5N1 to a human cluster over an extended time frame is cause for concern.

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[Snowy Owl]

Two more people hospitalized with bird flu in Azerbaijan

Two more people hospitalized with bird flu in Azerbaijan

http://english.pravda.ru/news/world/31-03-2006/78127-birdflu-0

Azerbaijan's health officials said Thursday that two more people had been hospitalized with bird flu in the ex-Soviet Caspian Sea nation, where the disease has claimed five lives so far.

Health Minister Oqtay Shiraliyev said that four of the five victims, who died earlier this month, were residents of one village, and three were members of one family. He said at a news conference that the victims apparently had contracted the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu when they were plucking feathers from dead swans.

<!-- TEXT BLOCK 2 --> Shiraliyev's deputy, Abbas Velibekov, said two sisters from the same family, a 15-year-old and a 16-year-old, were hospitalized with bird flu symptoms. Their blood samples were sent to a London laboratory for a confirmation of the diagnosis, he said.

<!-- TEXT BLOCK 3 --> The outbreak in Azerbaijan was first detected last month in wild birds along the Caspian Sea coast. It has spread to the northeast and the southwest, near the border with Iran.

<!-- TEXT BLOCK 4 --> Azerbaijan shares a short border with Turkey, where four children died recently of the disease.

<!-- TEXT BLOCK 5 --> The World Health Organization said at least 105 people died from H5N1 since 2003. Almost all of the human deaths have been linked to contact with infected poultry, but experts fear H5N1 could mutate into a form that spreads easily among people, sparking a human flu pandemic, reports AP.
<!-- TEXT BLOCK 6 --> According CBS News, an experimental bird flu vaccine seems to work. But it's nowhere near ready for prime time.

<!-- TEXT BLOCK 7 --> That's the word from U.S.-sponsored clinical trials of an H5N1 bird flu vaccine made by Sanofi Pasteur. The study shows that two shots of the vaccine given four weeks apart -- at the highest dose tested -- give what should be protective immunity to 50% of healthy adults.

<!-- TEXT BLOCK 8 --> High doses. Limited effectiveness. This means the current vaccine isn't likely to stem a deadly pandemic if the bird flu starts spreading among people.


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[Snowy Owl]

Re: Azeri girl, 16, treated for suspected bird flu

Two more girls infected by bird flu in Baku

http://www.regnum.ru/english/616159.html

Another two persons in Azerbaijan hospitalized on suspicion of bird flu, as the press was informed by Azerbaijan Health Minister Abbas Velibekov. According to the ministry's information, infected are the Askerovs sisters, aged 15 and 16, who live in Saly region of Azerbaijan.


The minister said that clinical course of the sisters? illness really looks like bird flu, but it will be specified after the tests in a British laboratory. The Askerovs sisters are relatives of three persons, who died of bird flu in the middle of March. According to the health minister, to the present moment, six human deaths have been registered in the country because of bird flu.

[Toaster2]

Re: Azeribajan Cases

Azerbejian count is 13, WHO count is 8 !

http://www.today.az/news/society/25301.html

Since March 5 there is no suspicion for Bird flu in Azerbaijan

19 April 2006 [14:00] - Today.Az

Number of Bird flu virus-infected people in Azerbaijan totaled 13, 5 of which died regardless of treatment, Chief Epidemiologist of the Ministry of Health Ibadullah Agayev stated.


These people were treated in SRI "Pulmonary diseases" and Infection Disease Hospital No.7, Trend reports.

"There has been no suspicion for this virus in Azerbaijan since March 4," - Agayev said.

International organizations are satisfied with the action Azerbaijan takes under the Bird flu program. Agayev underlined this fact saying he witnessed that at the conferences in China and Turkey.

"Center of Innovations and Supply with the Ministry of Health has enough medications for the case of the second wave of Bird flu," - he said.


URL: http://www.today.az/news/society/25301.html

[DB]

Re: Azeribajan Cases

We all know WHO can't count.

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