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Azerbaijan: 5 People Dead of 7 Cases Confirmed BF

From Russian on Azerbaijan: More ill from "the bird's flu"

From Russian on Azerbaijan: More ill from "the bird's flu"

My brother sent this link:

http://txt.newsru.com/world/20mar2006/voz.html

freetranslation.com

The commission of experts of the World organization of public health services (CART) suspects, that some more inhabitants of area Saljanskogo of Azerbaijan that is in 150 kilometers to the south from Baku, were ill "the bird's flu", informed on Monday telechannel ANS, referring on representatives the CART. With such application(statement) representatives the CART have acted after visiting area Saljanskogo where presence of disease at 14 inhabitants of settlements Dajkend and ?????? is suspected.

Representatives have declared the CART, that suspicions on diseases by virus H5N1 at some inhabitants of settlements have arisen at them after a meeting with families of the persons presumably infected with this illness.

The commission of experts the CART consisting of epidemiologists and ???????, are in area Saljanskom for studying sources of disease of inhabitants of these settlements.

It was earlier informed on presence of suspicions on a virus of "the bird's flu" at three lost inhabitants of area Saljanskogo. Researches on the part of experts the CART have confirmed the primary diagnosis about infection of three persons with "the bird's flu".

For the first time the virus of "the bird's flu" has been fixed in Azerbaijan on February, 9. It has been found out in samples of blood of the lost wild birds of passage at coast of Caspian sea. Of an event in Azerbaijan with alarm observe and in Europe. The way of birds of passage which can be messengers of a virus, lays just through Caucasus in the countries of Europe. There they stop on lakes on rest.

Till now diseases by " the bird's flu " people in near abroad and in Europe it has not been fixed. Fatally dangerous virus was not transferred from birds to people. But scientists constantly warned that the virus can ??????, to change and become dangerous to the person.

In Russia of cases of disease of people by "the bird's flu" it is not fixed yet. However Russians any more are not afraid of "the bird's flu", and the theme ???????? has had time to bother citizens fairly. Results of interrogation of 1,5 thousand testify to it the person, lead (carried out) by "New region" during the period from March, 14 till March, 20. Visitors of a resource were offered to answer a question: whether " the prospect ???????? "the bird's flu" (??) and how you prepare for it Frightens you? ". - 55,88 % have declared overwhelming majority of participants of voting that the theme of " the bird's flu " has bothered, and in ???????? they do not trust.

Meanwhile 16,88 % of participants of interrogation are ready to put an inoculation as soon as the human vaccine from "the bird's flu" will appear. 9,17 % interrogated are ready to refuse the use of a bird. 7,18 % are going with a view of safety to refuse trips to those edges (territories) where cases of " the bird's flu " are fixed.
 
Re: From Russian on Azerbaijan: More ill from "the bird's flu"

Re: From Russian on Azerbaijan: More ill from "the bird's flu"

WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION REPRESENTATIVES MEET WITH FAMILIES IN SALYAN 2006-03-20 15:22

Three members of World Health Organization (WHO) were In Daykand and Sarvan, Salyan where Bird Flu infection was detected. The group of epidemiologist and infection disease doctors meets with the member of these villages and the members of Bird Flu infected persons. The goal was to research the direction of infection came, giving feedbacks for abolition of decease nidus. After searches WHO representatives came to conclusion that it is supposed that for patients taking stationary treatment to infect this virus. They consider strengthen of prophylactic measures and medical enlightenments the main procedure protecting from the decease and they gave feedbacks to local medicals. Now 8 WHO representatives work in Azerbaijan. As a group except Salyan they also work in Tartar and Barda. Two experts from Egypt do here laboratory analysis. Aladdin Azimov. ANS

http://www.ans.az/news.php?category=3#n4905
 
Bird flu killed five in Azerbaijan - WHO

Bird flu killed five in Azerbaijan - WHO

Bird flu killed five in Azerbaijan - WHO
Tue Mar 21, 2006 3:26 PM GMT

http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/new...55916_RTRUKOC_0_UK-BIRDFLU-AZERBAIJAN-WHO.xml



GENEVA (Reuters) - The H5N1 strain of bird flu has killed five people in Azerbaijan in recent weeks, the World Health Organisation said on Tuesday.

The WHO said two other people in Azerbaijan had tested positive for bird flu. One of them has recovered, while the other remains in hospital in critical condition.
 
Re: Bird flu killed five in Azerbaijan - WHO

Re: Bird flu killed five in Azerbaijan - WHO

So we have a total of 7 people infected, 5 dead, 1 recovered and 1 in criticial condition.

Not good. Not good at all.
 
Re: Bird flu killed five in Azerbaijan - WHO

Re: Bird flu killed five in Azerbaijan - WHO

The WHO reps were visitig families of those who were initially ill. I'd like to know if these who have died or been infected are also family members, what is their time of onset of illness, of symptoms, etc. I'm sure the WHO reps must be gathering the data to see if these are additional cases of B to H or if they could be H to H or even Dog to H...

I wish they'd lay out all the info, clearly and plainly so we could form our own conclusions.

Now when a health care worker (HCW) or a WHO rep gets it, now that would be attention grabbing! much as I'd dread hearing such news...
 
Re: Bird flu killed five in Azerbaijan - WHO

Re: Bird flu killed five in Azerbaijan - WHO

Avian influenza – situation in Azerbaijan - update 2
21 March 2006

Samples from 11 patients under investigation in Azerbaijan for possible H5N1 infection have now been tested at a WHO collaborating laboratory in the United Kingdom. Positive H5N1 results were obtained for seven of these patients. Five cases were fatal.


Today is an official holiday in Azerbaijan. The government will issue an official statement on the situation shortly.


Six of the cases occurred in Salyan Rayon in the south-eastern part of the country. All six cases resided in the small Daikyand settlement of around 800 homes.


A 17-year-old girl died on 23 February. Her first cousin, a 20-year-old woman, died on 3 March. The 16-year-old brother of this woman died on 10 March. A 17-year-old girl, a close friend of the family, died on 8 March. All four of these cases lived together or near each other. The source of their infection is presently under investigation.


The additional two cases in Salyan involve a 10-year-old boy, who has recovered, and a 15-year-old girl, who is hospitalized in critical condition.
The seventh case occurred in a 21-year-old woman from the western rayon of Tarter. She died on 9 March.


Two additional patients, from Salyan and the adjacent rayon of Neftchela, have been hospitalized with symptoms of bilateral pneumonia. Testing of these patients is presently under way.


Last week, WHO strengthened its field team in Azerbaijan to include experts in clinical management and infection control and additional senior epidemiologists.


Over the weekend, a field investigation in Salyan, jointly conducted by WHO and the Azeri Ministry of Health, found some evidence that carcasses of numerous swans, dead for some weeks but not buried, may have been collected by residents as a source of feathers. In this community, the defeathering of birds is a task usually undertaken by adolescent girls and young women. The WHO team is today investigating whether this practice may have been the source of infection in Daikyand, where the majority of cases have occurred in females between the ages of 15 and 20 years.


Interviews with surviving family members have failed to uncover a history of direct exposure to dead or diseased poultry for several of the cases.


Excellent collaboration between the Ministry of Health and the WHO team continues. WHO is confident that ongoing house-to-house surveillance for cases of influenza-like illness, undertaken by more than 90 local medical teams in Salyan and Tarter, will detect patients requiring further investigation. On-site diagnostic capacity continues to be provided by the US Naval Medical Research Unit 3 (NAMRU-3). A better understanding of the situation in animals is, however, urgently needed.


http://www.who.int/csr/don/2006_03_21a/en/
 
Re: Bird flu killed five in Azerbaijan - WHO

Re: Bird flu killed five in Azerbaijan - WHO

Febuary 23: A 17-year-old girl died.
March 3: Her first cousin, a 20-year-old woman
March 8: A 17-year-old girl, a close friend of the family,
March 10: The 16-year-old brother of the 20 year old woman died.

All four of these cases lived together or near each other.
The source of their infection is presently under investigation.

Well, clearly they did not all eat or play with the same chicken. With the case death dates this looks like human to human transmission.
 
Re: Bird flu killed five in Azerbaijan - WHO

Re: Bird flu killed five in Azerbaijan - WHO

Are these all NEW CASES? What are the relationships with the OLD cases?

Have people been given tamiflu? Could that have delayed death?

Is there any evidence that these people could have done something like collecting dead swans or collecting feathers from the dead swans left lying around? Could this be the mode whereby they got infected in a multimodal fashion?

Who are the other 3 who died but aren't listed? What's their relationship to previous cases? If they are family members, are there any alternative explanations for their deaths besides h to h transmission?

I'm a scientist, albeit a distrustful one at times when politics and business get tied up with the science, but I would like to see all the facts and findings laid out and all the gene sequences subjected to scientific scrutiny. There's science that can be brought to bear at all levels is information is provided freely.

As for the gene sequences, looks like there is some movement toward making that info more available. Time will tell, just as time will tell if this is efficient human to human transmission occurring in Azerbaijain or if transmission suggests the change in S127N (that occurred in Turkey) and nothing more than inefficient h to h...

A sick caregiver would be pretty suggestive unless he or she collected swan feathers on the side or played kissy face with a pet dog that had been eating dead swans... Epidemiology! Let's see ALL the facts! you WHO reps!

Check this thread:
http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/showthread.php?t=2345

List List of People Reported Infected or Dead in Azerbaijan from 3/14 (AnneZ, Zkurmus & Mellie contributed):

People reported infected or dead in Azerbajan <hr size="1" style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);"><!-- / icon and title --><!-- message --> Thank you to Zkurmus for finding the news reports.
I have reorganised the following list in to clusters.

20 cases: 4 deaths, 5 recovered, 11 unknown status.

Cluster 1. This maybe a cluster, it is based on the surnames of these people.
Shahriyar Asgerov.(Shakhmar,Shahlar,Shamkhar,Sahmar Askerov,Asgarov)
16 male, Daikand village, Salyan region, died 10-Mar-06
Nabat Askerov (Nebat Asgerova Askerova). 20 Female, died 3-Mar-06

Cluster 2.
Ahmadov Yashar Bahlul, 14 female, Salyan, discharged from Baku Hospital No. 7
Ahmadova Kamila Bahlul, 17 female, Salyan, discharged from Baku Hospital No. 7

Cluster 3.
E.G, sibling to O.G., from Tokat, Cumhuriyet University Hospital
O.G., sibling to E.G., from Tokat, now at Cumhuriyet University Hospital

Cluster 4.
A.S., Sibling to B.S., from Tokat, now at Cumhuriyet University Hospital
B.S., sibling to A.S. from Tokat, now at Cumhuriyet University Hospital




Mammadova Agaselim Arif, 13, discharged from Baku Hospital No. 7

Manafov Elsever Panah, 20, Kyurdamir, discharged.

Shahsenem Ibrahimova, 6, Salyan, discharged.

Ziyafet Muhtarov, 35, Dayikent and nearby village,

Emrah Ismailov,9, Dayikent and nearby village,

Schaxsenem Ibrahimova, 2.5 female, admitted to hospital 6-mar-2006

Amrah Ismayilov, 9, Sarvan

Maleyka Rzazade, Narimanov District of Baku resident

Ziyafet Mukhtarov, 35 male, Salyan.

Seymur Gulmaliyev, 28 male, worker of Safali-broiler farm.

Khatira (Hatira) Abbasova, 17 , Dayikend, died 23-Feb-06

Gunel Gasymova (Gyune Gasimova), 16 or 17 female, Sarvan, died 8-mar-2006.
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Re: Bird flu killed five in Azerbaijan - WHO

Interviews with surviving family members have failed to uncover a history of direct exposure to dead or diseased poultry for several of the cases.
 
ProMed AVIAN INFLUENZA, AZERBAIJAN

ProMed AVIAN INFLUENZA, AZERBAIJAN

http://www.promedmail.org/pls/prome..._BACK_PAGE,F2400_P1001_PUB_MAIL_ID:1000,32426

AVIAN INFLUENZA, HUMAN - WORLDWIDE (29): AZERBAIJAN
**************************************************
A ProMED-mail post
In this update:

[1] Azerbaijan - 14 new suspected human cases
[2] Azerbaijan - 7 cases confirmed by WHO

*****
[1] Azerbaijan
Date: Tue 21 Mar 2006
From: Mary Marshall <tropical.forestry@btinternet.com>
Source: MosNews online, Mon 20 Mar 2006 [edited]
<http://mosnews.com/news/2006/03/20/azerflu.shtml>


It has been reported by the Interfax Agency on Monday [20 Mar 2006] that
experts from the World Health Organization suspect 14 more people in
Azerbaijan [have contracted] avian influenza, where 2 girls died of H5N1
virus infection earlier in March 2006. A group of WHO experts reported
their suspicions after visiting the Salyansky district of Azerbaijan, 150
km to the south of the capital Baku. Earlier 3 residents of the district
had been provisionally diagnosed with avian influenza.

Meanwhile, according to the Regnum News Agency the state commission for
preventing the spread of bird flu in Azerbaijan and coordinating the work
of relevant government bodies has issued a statement saying that no new
outbreaks of avian influenza have been discovered, Regnum news agency said.
"Bird flu has not been discovered in new areas. The Health Ministry has
said no-one has been hospitalized [with suspected bird flu] in recent days,
and that it has stockpiled the medications and disinfectants necessary to
prevent and treat the bird flu virus," the statement read.

Archive Number 20060321.0882
Published Date 21-MAR-2006
Subject PRO/AH/EDR> Avian influenza, human - worldwide (29): Azerbaijan



AVIAN INFLUENZA, HUMAN - WORLDWIDE (29): AZERBAIJAN
***************************************************
A ProMED-mail post
<http://www.promedmail.org>
ProMED-mail is a program of the
International Society for Infectious Diseases
<http://www.isid.org>

In this update:

[1] Azerbaijan - 14 new suspected human cases
[2] Azerbaijan - 7 cases confirmed by WHO

*****
[1] Azerbaijan
Date: Tue 21 Mar 2006
From: Mary Marshall <tropical.forestry@btinternet.com>
Source: MosNews online, Mon 20 Mar 2006 [edited]
<http://mosnews.com/news/2006/03/20/azerflu.shtml>


It has been reported by the Interfax Agency on Monday [20 Mar 2006] that
experts from the World Health Organization suspect 14 more people in
Azerbaijan [have contracted] avian influenza, where 2 girls died of H5N1
virus infection earlier in March 2006. A group of WHO experts reported
their suspicions after visiting the Salyansky district of Azerbaijan, 150
km to the south of the capital Baku. Earlier 3 residents of the district
had been provisionally diagnosed with avian influenza.

Meanwhile, according to the Regnum News Agency the state commission for
preventing the spread of bird flu in Azerbaijan and coordinating the work
of relevant government bodies has issued a statement saying that no new
outbreaks of avian influenza have been discovered, Regnum news agency said.
"Bird flu has not been discovered in new areas. The Health Ministry has
said no-one has been hospitalized [with suspected bird flu] in recent days,
and that it has stockpiled the medications and disinfectants necessary to
prevent and treat the bird flu virus," the statement read.

--
Mary Marshall
<tropical.forestry@btinternet.com>

******
[2]
Date: Tue 21 Mar 2006
From: Marianne Hopp <mjhopp12@yahoo.com>
Source: World Health Organisation (WHO), CSR, Disease Outbreak News, Tue 21
Mar 2006 [edited]
<http://www.who.int/csr/don/2006_03_21a/en/index.html>


Azerbaijan: Avian Influenza Situation - WHO Update 2
----------------------------------------------------
As of Tue 11 Mar 2006, samples from 11 patients under investigation in
Azerbaijan for possible H5N1 infection have now been tested at a WHO
collaborating laboratory in the United Kingdom. Positive H5N1 results were
obtained for 7 of these patients. 5 cases were fatal.

Today is an official holiday in Azerbaijan. The government will issue an
official statement on the situation shortly. 6 of the cases occurred in
Salyan Rayon in the south-eastern part of the country. All 6 cases resided
in the small Daikyand settlement of around 800 homes.

A 17-year-old girl died on 23 Feb 2006. Her first cousin, a 20-year-old
woman, died on 3 Mar. The 16-year-old brother of this woman died on 10 Mar.
A 17-year-old girl, a close friend of the family, died on 8 Mar. All 4 of
these cases lived together or near each other. The source of their
infection is presently under investigation.

The additional 2 cases in Salyan involve a 10-year-old boy, who has
recovered, and a 15-year-old girl, who is hospitalized in critical condition.

The 7th case occurred in a 21-year-old woman from the western rayon of
Tarter. She died on 9 Mar 2006.

2 additional patients, from Salyan and the adjacent rayon of Neftchela,
have been hospitalized with symptoms of bilateral pneumonia. Testing of
these patients is presently under way.

Last week, WHO strengthened its field team in Azerbaijan to include experts
in clinical management and infection control and additional senior
epidemiologists. Over the weekend, a field investigation in Salyan, jointly
conducted by WHO and the Azeri Ministry of Health, found some evidence that
carcasses of numerous swans, dead for some weeks but not buried, may have
been collected by residents as a source of feathers. In this community, the
defeathering of birds is a task usually undertaken by adolescent girls and
young women. The WHO team is today investigating whether this practice may
have been the source of infection in Daikyand, where the majority of cases
have occurred in females between the ages of 15 and 20 years. Interviews
with surviving family members have failed to uncover a history of direct
exposure to dead or diseased poultry for several of the cases.

Excellent collaboration between the Ministry of Health and the WHO team
continues. WHO is confident that ongoing house-to-house surveillance for
cases of influenza-like illness, undertaken by more than 90 local medical
teams in Salyan and Tarter, will detect patients requiring further
investigation. On-site diagnostic capacity continues to be provided by the
US Naval Medical Research Unit 3 (NAMRU-3). A better understanding of the
situation in animals is, however, urgently needed.

--
ProMED-mail
<promed@promedmail.org>

[General reference maps for Azerbaijan can be accessed at
<http://www.geocities.com/fanthom_2000/List_of_Maps.html>. The Salyansk
District can be located in both the top row middle and right-hand maps.

Confirmation of these cases makes Azerbaijan the 8th country in the world
to report human cases of H5N1 avian influenza virus infection. The cluster
of cases in Salyansk district is one of the biggest recorded so far, but
person-to-person transmission does not appear to be involved.

The number of human cases of H5N1 infection confirmed by WHO has risen now
to 184 including 103 deaths. The breakdown of case numbers by country and
year can be accessed at:
<http://www.who.int/csr/disease/avian_influenza/country/cases_table_2006_03_21/en/index.html>.
- Mod.CP]
 
Re: ProMed AVIAN INFLUENZA, AZERBAIJAN

Re: ProMed AVIAN INFLUENZA, AZERBAIJAN

"... but person-to-person transmission does not appear to be involved. ..."


This is another idiotic comment from a PROMED commentator.

Anyone who knows anything about anything will tell you that the 4 deaths in Azerbaijan clearly represent person-to-person transmission.
 
Re: Bird flu killed five in Azerbaijan - WHO

Re: Bird flu killed five in Azerbaijan - WHO

Pixie said:
<bod>Four of those who died were young women aged between 17 and 21, while the other was a 16-year-old boy.</bod>
Now check the male/female ratio of deaths worldwide. Female bias? (We already know the virus likes the young.)
 
Experts seek to contain Azeri bird flu outbreak

Experts seek to contain Azeri bird flu outbreak

Four of the victims were from the village of Daikend in the Salyan region of southern Azerbaijan. Two young women and a boy were members of the same extended family. A third girl was a family friend.

"No one went to the funerals of those girls," said Ilham Salamov, who lives in Daikend and had come into the regional capital Salyan, about 20 km (13 miles) away.

"Everyone is afraid. There is panic in the village. Everyone is scared about bird flu."

(Additional reporting by Pat Reaney in London, Besan Omary in Ramallah and Antoine Lawson in Libreville)

next page : http://today.reuters.com/news/newsA...RTRUKOC_0_US-BIRDFLU.xml&pageNumber=1&summit=


? Reuters 2006. All Rights Reserved.
 
New human case in Azerbaijan

New human case in Azerbaijan

http://www.interfax.ru/e/B/politics/28.html?id_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.
 
Re: New human case in Azerbaijan

Re: New human case in Azerbaijan

State of 15-year girl suspected of Bird flu is stable
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</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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