Dutchman tested for bird flu

[Gert van der Hoek]

Dutch man tested for bird flu.

Uitgegeven: 23 september 2007 18:16

Laatst gewijzigd: 23 september 2007 18:38

AMSTERDAM - A dutch employee for a culling company has been tested for birdflu in a Hospital in Purmerend. This was confirmed sunday by a spokesman of the ministry of health.

Primliminary tests indicate he is not infected. Monday definitive serotology results are awaited.

He got a high fever on friday and was seen by a doctor. He told he had been in a birdflu area he was placed in quarantaine.

Ducks

The employee of culling company TCC worked in the german Bayern culling ducks with H5N1...and that a variant that kills people ...200 dead, mostly in Asia.

In different poultry farms in Bayern they found H5N1 in the month and the last month so hundreds of thousands of animals had to be culled. According to TCC the culling was chaotic.

Risks

The company said unacceptable healthrisks were. Among the 600 people employed for the cull by Geman authorities there was little clarity about the responsibilities.

Contamined clothes and materials were possibly removed in a wrong way, according to TCC.


http://www.nu.nl/news/1246534/10/Nederlander_getest_op_vogelgriepvariant.html

credits Kassy

 

[sharon sanders]

Re: Dutchman tested for bird flu

Thanks Dutchy and Kassy.

 

[Gert van der Hoek]

Re: Dutchman tested for bird flu

Additional information

-Test results expected today.

According to the culling company TCC

-The cullers were all on Tamiflu,

-Desinfecting procedures were substandard, unacceptable risks for the health of the cullers

-Culling of the ducks in Germany was slow and causing more pain and stress to the ducks then necessary.

http://www.ad.nl/binnenland/article1684630.ece

 

[Gert van der Hoek]

Re: Dutchman tested for bird flu

Snip from newsreport today:

"The man has been tested for the H5N1-variant that is dangerous to humans, but the ministery does not comment on the results at the request of the patient. The company says it will make the results public at a later stage."

http://binnenland.nieuws.nl/480265/Geen_maatregelen_na_test_op_H5N1

 

[Gert van der Hoek]

Re: Dutchman tested for bird flu

Nederlander niet besmet met vogelgriep

Uitgegeven op dinsdag 25 september 2007 om 18:31:22

(Novum) - Een medewerker van een Nederlands ruimingsbedrijf is niet besmet met vogelgriep. Dat laat zijn werkgever TCC-group dinsdagavond weten. Het ministerie van Volksgezondheid liet aan het begin van de middag al weten geen aanvullende maatregelen te nemen naar aanleiding van de toen nog mogelijke besmetting.

Dutchman not infected with bird flu. Second test was negative, according to the employer (TCC-group).

http://binnenland.nieuws.nl/480327/Nederlander_niet_besmet_met_vogelgriep