Georgia: Bird Flu Confirmed

[Susie]

http://mosnews.com/news/2006/03/10/georgiafears.shtml

2 Girls Die in Georgia of Suspected Bird Flu
Created: 10.03.2006 14:06 MSK (GMT +3), Updated: 14:06 MSK, 10 minutes ago


MosNews


Two girls have died in Georgia during in the two days and parents of their fellow schoolers suppose the victims had bird flu.

7-year-old girl died after physicians were unable to save her, Interfax news agency reported. The official verdict was acute pneumonia. Two days before, a 12-year-old girl who studied at the same school in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi, died of the same disease.

Georgian Health Ministry officials refute the reports that the girls could had contracted bird flu saying that no virus of this infection had been found in the victims? blood.

Earlier, a girl died in Azerbaijan after being hospitalized for bird flu-like symptoms. However, the health ministry declined to reveal official cause of death.

[ukcz]

Re: Outbreak in Georgia ?

"not caused by bird flu, but by another, very toxic virus"
Name that virus ;-)

[Clytie]

Still no H5N1 found

Update: more patients and more worry but still no H5N1:


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Number Of Patients Of Infection Hospital Increasing In Tbilisi

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Tbilisi. March 12 (Prime-News) – Number of patients appealing to the Tbilisi Infection Hospital is increasing.


Most likely the reason for their anxiety is death of two schoolgirls of the Tbilisi 50<SUP>th</SUP> secondary school; the nascent reports said that their death was a result of alleged “A” type of virus, Prime-News was told by the representatives of the TbilisiInfectionHospital.

According to them, lives of four other students of the above-mentioned school and one of the parents of the school-child were not endangered in any way; one student has already been discharged and others might be discharged on Sunday.

The doctors rule out possible infection of the patients with H5N1 bird flu strain.

The patients were given Tamiflu for prevention of possible outbreak of bird flu either.

The tests showed that Iana Beridze, 7, student of the Tbilisi 50<SUP>th</SUP> secondary school died after pneumonia on Thursday. The reason of death of Tamta Kukhelava, 12, another student of the same school, was staphylococcus, the doctors say.





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[Sally Furniss]

Re: Georgia: Bird Flu Confirmed

Names of the 2 girls who died of pneumonia

Diana Beridze, 7 female
Tamta Kukhelava, 12 female