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Iraqi Woman Dies of Suspected Bird Flu - February 2006

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Re: 2 siblings of Mohanad Radi (deceased) hospitalized

Re: 2 siblings of Mohanad Radi (deceased) hospitalized

Another report (news source unknown) on this from a comment on EffectMeasure. Hat-tip Dr. Niman:

http://www.haloscan.com/comments/revere/113953327992892676/#165417

Le fr?re et la soeur d'un ?leveur de pigeons d'Amara, dans le sud de l'Irak, d?c?d? dimanche apr?s avoir manifest? des sympt?mes de la grippe aviaire, ont ?t? hospitalis?s vendredi, selon les autorit?s locales.
"Ali Radi, 10 ans, Douaa Radi, 7 ans, ont ?t? admis aujourd'hui ? l'h?pital car ils pr?sentaient les sympt?mes de la grippe aviaire", a affirm? le gouverneur de la province de Missane, M. Adel Mohajar al-Maliki, dans une d?claration? la presse.

Hospitalis? pendant cinq jours, leur fr?re, Mohanad Radi, ?leveur de pigeons, s'est ?teint dimanche deux jours apr?s ?tre rentr? chez lui. Les analyses effectu?es sur un pr?l?vement sanguin de deux oiseaux morts de son ?levage avaient confirm? qu'ils ?taient porteurs du virus H5N1.

Trois cousins de la famille Radi, ?g?s de 3, 6 et 7 ans, qui habitaient dans la m?me maison que Mohanad Rad, ont ?t? hospitalis?s mercredi
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south irak : brother and sister of mohanad, 10 and 7 years old, have symptomes of AI, and are in hospital
( two dead pigeons were H5n1)
3 related, who lived in the same house, were hospitalized too ( bad english, escuse me)
Dr DIEN
maifair | Email | Homepage | 02.11.06 - 5:01 am | #
 
Additional suspected cases in Iraq

Additional suspected cases in Iraq

This article is from Friday. The paper seems to be published in London. Machine translation from Arabic:

New suspected injury cases by the bird flu disease
2006/02/10

As-Sulaymaniyah - AFP : Medical sources yesterday declared that eight suspected injury cases new by the bird flu disease they were recorded in the As-Sulaymaniyah cities hospitals ( 330 km north of ) and the building ( 366 km south of ). [So, 5 new cases in Sulaymaniyah on Wed -- and the three cousins in Amara = 8 new cases.]

And the introduction of five my disease suspected by their injury with influenza disease took place the birds Wednesday at night to the hospital of the general As-Sulaymaniyah are what the total number is raised to ten persons.

And said a doctor preferred the non revelation of his identity that yesterday evening five new cases came one of it from Taslouga region ( 51 km west of As-Sulaymaniyah ) and four of Qara Dagh region ( 50 km in south of As-Sulaymaniyah ).

And he added that there are five other persons receiving the treatment in the hospital a woman claims Aisha [1] and its daughter Fardous [2] the reaching is from the age seven years from Tngiroua region ( 5 km south of ) and a man [3] claims a rocking from Al-Qadisiya region close to the As-Sulaymaniyah airport and a girl [4] matures from the age 20 years it claims Hishou from the As-Sulaymaniyah center and Kagal [5] the worker in Bazyan ( 60 km in south of As-Sulaymaniyah ).

And the doctor pointed that in the total the entrance of 17 patients suspected by their injury with the disease took place in the hospital since the emergence of the disease.

And he clarified that some was suffering from a simple fever go out you from the hospital days after their receiving of the treatment.

And in Al-Imarah city ( 366 in south of Baghdad ), Iraqi medical sources yesterday Thursday declared that three children suspected in their injury by the bird flu disease symptoms you enter yesterday evening one of the city hospitals for the assurance of what if they were suffering from this disease.

And said the doctor Mohamed the passengers of the manager of the health protection headquarters in the city that falls at a distance of 366 km in south of Baghdad that three children they the one cousins that were dead before days you enter yesterday evening to the hospital because of their injury with the symptoms of this disease.

http://tinyurl.com/a2gde

Same story also appears here (dated Feb 10, 2006):

http://www.aliraqnews.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=6870
 
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More on the Basra rumors

More on the Basra rumors

This site appears to be a sort of a blog. This post is dated Jan 23, 2006. Machine translation from Arabic:

London is ــ Basra is newspaper ــ ( the time ) - the issue is 2313 - 23 / 1 / 2006

Basra city dominated through the three last days the panic atmospheres after the discovery of a number of the injuries by the bird flu disease and according to the agency of the Iraqi news, there are 8 injuries by influenza disease the birds . And most of it focuses in Abu Al Khasib region and a single injury in Shatt al Arab region Al Tnouma and said Basra governor ...Al Waili is that the injuries are from the kind not killing Lfaerous influenza of birds and preferred that he is the injuries source birds I passed through Al Kut city. And the denial of what circulated about that the injuries reason an injured poultry shipment coming from Iran where the examination of the shipment took place from the competent authority and made sure at it from the examination that the shipment not injured the birds Banflouanza. And the doctor Moayyad Hassan said the two gluttonous that supervise the unity of the urgent care in Basra hospital ( the port in the past ) is that one has met its death and she is seventh year old child.

A non killing kind from the bird flu in Basra

http://efn.friendsofdemocracy.net/default.asp?item=138205
 
Reports of 3 bf suspected deaths in one family in Nasjaf

Reports of 3 bf suspected deaths in one family in Nasjaf

Machine translation from Arabic:

Doubts [suspicions] the injury of four citizens you fulfil the bird flu in Maysan and Najaf
The Gmt of 9 : 30 : 00 2006 the Al Thlaa of 7 February

Four citizens met in the governorates of Maysan and Najaf their death yesterday [Feb 06] amid doubts about their injury with the bird flu disease, while a medical source in As-Sulaymaniyah declared the confirmation of second death state due to the injury by the disease but that the health organization actress the universality is in Iraq Naima Hassan Al Kasir it declared yesterday Monday that the organization doubts the presence of seven injuries by the same disease in Kurdistan. Meanwhile the general company prepared for the veterinary medicine a plan a wide for the caution against the appearance of new injuries by the disease and the related to the house poultry breeding.

And in Maysan our correspondent Saad Hassan about the preservation health general manager reported that Al Sadr's hospital the year in Al-Imarah city twenty fifth year old the death of a young man witnessed after his injury with a sharp respiratory disease that the specialized doctors doubt his injury with the bird flu disease.

And the general manager of Messan Governate health in his statement said to (the morning) that the young man Mohannad Radi Zouri who lives in a region Al Ardat square in Al-Imarah city center ..He was lying in the general Al Sadr hospital since five days for its injury with a respiratory disease a very sharp .., and its health has deteriorated before two days of its death .., and he added that the withdrawal of a model took place from the blood of the departed young man and she sent to the central laboratory in Baghdad for the knowledge of the death reason .., on the other side a source in the veterinary medicine department said in the preservation : the departed young man was exercising the aviculture hobby that on some of it an injury appeared it is implied that it is an influenza the birds and took place on their trace of the confiscation of those birds to a laboratory sackcloth measure on them ., and she sent to Baghdad for the clarification of a result the injury and its kind, and the source did not exclude the injury of young man and birds by the bird flu disease virus despite its denial of a day yesterday by the non appearance of injuries in the governorate.

And in Najaf three individuals met from a single family in towards Al Abasia their death yesterday [Feb 06] the effect of doubts with their injury with influenza disease the birds and the Iraqi news agency correspondent in City of Najaf reported that three individuals, two men he exceeds their age the thirty and a woman an old they departed the life affected by a non discovered disease, after their taking before two days a food including the chickens and on her effect she was taken their health with the deterioration and transferred to the hospital on the same day and they all died yesterday and they are from a single family. And a correspondent confirmed the agency is that the doubts take place between the medical environments that the three died the effect of their injury by the bird flu disease but they abstain about the revelation of that. It is mentioned that the department of Najaf health issued death certificates of the three persons it reports that they died an effect their injury with the pneumonia disease, but the assistant of Najaf health confirmed to it is not with the ability of the medical systems the disease diagnosis and they will send samples of the deceased blood to Baghdad and hence they send to Egypt to be submitted to accurate analyses. In this the during an atmosphere dominated from the fear and the panic at the citizens in the governorate after their hearing of this news and the people started becoming far about the eating of the poultry meats by all their kinds which take it their prices are with the concession beside the rise of the fishes prices and the leading meats according to the agency correspondent. In a related context a medical source declared from As-Sulaymaniyah yesterday Monday the registration of the occurrence of death state a second due to the injury by the bird flu.

And said a source in the Ministry of Health belonging to Kurdistan region from As-Sulaymaniyah that " the medical examinations that were held in The laboratories of the international health in Cairo on samples that from Mohamed Abdullah's fences were taken confirmed its death due to the injury by a virus (H5N1).

And he clarified that "Abdullah he was dead in last 27 January about an age that reached 40 years. And he is child Shgin Abdul Qader's uncle the one that was dead by the bird flu in 17 from last month.

And in Arbela the World Health Organization actress in Iraq Naima Hassan Al Kasir yesterday Monday declared that the organization suspects with the presence of seven injuries by the bird flu disease in Kurdistan.

And the organization actress in Iraq in a press conference in Arbela city said "there seven other cases it suspects with its injury with the bird flu disease we took samples of it and sent it to the organization laboratories in Cairo for the verification of it.

And she clarified that this issue does not include the girl who was dead in 17 January in Kurdistan. And she added "as soon as the results appear that will inform the Iraqi government about them."

(...)

From its side the minister of health in the region of the Krdstan of the As-Sulaymaniyah administration yesterday Monday declared that four persons are only from the origin of 18 suspected by their injury with the bird flu in the region.

And Mohamed said Khoushnaw in a press conference "the number that is suspected by their injury with the bird flu disease he reaches four persons" in the As-Sulaymaniyah city.”

And he clarified that "18 persons you enter to the As-Sulaymaniyah hospital since the emergence of the bird flu in Krdstan region for the suspicion in their injury with the disease. And bringing 12 injured of the hospital has taken place because of the improvement of their health state."

And Khoushnaw that wanders daily in the regions that are suspected that they include foci of the disease confirmed that "two of these four patients also they were submitted to a superior medical care and their health state improved."

And he added that it expects to "the health state of the four injured improves in a noticeable way in the coming few days because of their handling of the anti-disease that came finally to Krdstan region medicines."

From its side the international organization for the health of the animal yesterday Monday said that Iraq informed about the occurrence of an outbreak to the bird flu amid the poultry in As-Sulaymaniyah and she is the region herself that died in them a girl by the disease last month.

And the organization based in Paris said that the examinations result is on the poultry in two villages in Al Silmania that showed the presence of the virus (H5N1) and now more examinations take place.

And the migrating birds frequent the As-Sulaymaniyah governorate parallel to the Turkish borders.

And the organization added "the outbreak amid the poultry talked all in the house birds and she is the habit of chickens and geese and the ducks and the ****s the Roman according to information that they received from the Ministry of Agriculture in Baghdad the day the current third of February."

And the organization pointed that the measures of the control on the disease are applicable and from it the operations of slaughter and quarantine and the restriction of the move inside the countries.

Meanwhile the general company prepared for the veterinary medicine a wide plan for the caution against the appearance of new injuries by the bird flu disease in the countries that relates to the house poultry breeding....

http://72.14.207.104/search?q=cache:yO0Yjq6WBxQJ:www.elaph.com/ElaphWeb/NewsPapers/2006/2/126402.htm+2006+%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%81%D9%84%D9%88%D9%86%D8%B2%D8%A7+%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B7%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%B1&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=71&lr=lang_ar
 
"Burning the poultry in Kirkuk for fear of the influenza"

"Burning the poultry in Kirkuk for fear of the influenza"

Machine translation from Arabic:

A policy : burning the poultry in Kirkuk for fear of the influenza
Feb 12, 2006

The Iraqi police started in the city of Kirkuk rich in the oil a wide campaign for burning the alive poultry for fear of the move of the killing disease of the bird flu to it after recording death cases in the adjacent As-Sulaymaniyah.

And Kirkuk police chief the brigadier Borhan Habib Taha said the measures that the police carry out in cooperation with headquarters the correctness of the preservation in the operation room of fighting the bird flu epidemic orders the prevention of the sale of the alive chickens in all shops the city and its districts and its sides and its villages. And he added that the police will carry out in case that violated one of, with taking the alive chickens and their crowd and their burning immediately with the supervision of the veterinary and health groups.

And in Iraqi Kurdistan it was recorded and Vatan is two certain by the bird flu while the entrance of five patients took place he suspects with their injury with the disease Wednesday to the hospital of the general As-Sulaymaniyah what the total number is raised is for the injuries the suspect to ten in north of Iraq.

And in Al Emara ( 366 kilometres in south of Baghdad ) two new children suspected by their injury of the city hospital yesterday enter so that he rises to five number of the children suspect of their injury with the disease from the family herself after the death of a relative for them by the honors herself, according to medical sources and an official.

(...)

http://www.aliraqnews.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=6924
 
Iraq H5N1 Case Count - Feb 12, 2006

Iraq H5N1 Case Count - Feb 12, 2006

I now count 28 (27?) suspected and known cases of H5N1 infected people in Iraq. Lemme know if you see any errors or have any additional information (pm me).

There are also a couple of new, interesting rumors -- one about the early Basra rumors which includes a report of the suspicious death of a seven year-old -- and the other a report on the suspicious death of three members of one family -- of pneumonia (of course). I've bolded these rumors below.

Iraq H5N1 Case Count - Feb 12, 2006

#1
Name: Shangen Abdul Qader (15F) [aka Shengeen Abdul Qadr, Shanjin Abdel Qader, Chanjin Abdelkader, Tijan Abdel-Qader]
d. Jan 17, 2006
Home Town/Province: Sarkapkan Village, Raniya district (100 km S of Turkish border, 15 km W of Iran)
Date of Onset of Symptoms: Jan 10, 2006? Jan 03, 2006? 3 days before hospitalization?
Date Hospitalized: Jan 14, 2006 - treated in Rania hospital, transfered to Sulaimaniyah Hospital, where she "died within ten minutes of being transfered to Sulaimaniya for medical treatment."
Symptoms: Flu-like symptoms. Severe lung infection. Severe pneumonia. Authorities claimed she had an aortic aneurysm and a history of cardiac problems.
Confirmed H5N1: Jan 31, 2006.
Others in Cluster & Relationship: #2 Uncle, deceased, lived in same household. #7? - cousin.


#2
Name: Hamma Sour Abdullah (39/40M) [aka Hamasour Mustapha]
d. Jan 27, 2006
Home Town/Province: Sarkapkan Village, Raniya district (100 km S of Turkish border, 15 km W of Iran)
Date of Onset of Symptoms: Jan 24, 2006?
Date Hospitalized: Jan 24, 2006 - Sulaimaniyah Hospital
Symptoms: Flu-like symptoms. Claimed to be suffering from pulmonary infection at first, Maria Cheng (WHO) claimed he sufferend "breathing difficulties" and "severe respiratory problems." Symptoms similar to bird flu also noted.
Confirmed H5N1: Feb 06, 2006.
Others in Cluster & Relationship: Uncle of #1 Shangen Abdel-Qader (15F), lived in same household, said to have cared for her while she was ill (? culturally) and was girl's mother's brother. Died 10 days after his neice's death. Also, #7?
Contact with Poultry: Sick chickens in household.


#3
Name: Miriam Qadar (54F)
Home Town/Province: Raniya
Date of Onset of Symptoms: ?
Date Hospitalized: Jan 18, 2006 - Sulaimaniyah Hospital
Symptoms: Respiratory problems. Said to be severe bird flu symptoms.
Status: Hospitalized being treated?
Others in Cluster & Relationship: "Believed to be a distant relative of #1 & #2"


#4
Name: Sabiha Ali (F)
Home Town/Province: ?
Date of Onset of Symptoms: ?
Date Hospitalized: ? - Sulaimaniyah Hospital
Symptoms: ?
Status: Hospitalized being treated?

#4?
Name: Sabria Mohammed (40F)
Notes: In the city of Sulaimaniyah five people earlier suspected of suffering from bird flu were released Tuesday after their health improved following treatment, senior health official Mohammed Khushnow said. Of the five, Sabria Mohammed, a 40-year-old woman, was a carrier of H5N1 but her health improved after she was treated with the anti-avian influenza drug Tamiflu, he said.
http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=15680


#5
Name: Sariya Mirza (35F)
Home Town/Province: ?
Date of Onset of Symptoms: ?
Date Hospitalized: ? - Hospital in city of Erbil.
Symptoms: ?
Status: Hospitalized?
Notes: Noted as being positive for H5N1 - no other details given.


#6
Name: Hussein Saleh (38M) - poultry butcher
Home Town/Province: Bazyane, 40km south of Sulaimaniyah
Date of Onset of Symptoms: ?
Date Hospitalized: ? (appears in news Feb 02, 2006) - Sulaimaniyah
Symptoms: ?
Status: ?
Notes: Suspected to be infect by aviary influenza.


#7
Name: unknown - cousin to Shangen Abdul Qader (#1)
d. date?
Reported: Feb 05, 2006
Others in Cluster & Relationship: #1? - cousin. #2?
Notes: The responsible Iraqi also announced that one of the cousins of the girl deceased for the virus she died in the same city, but the results of the analyses had not confirmed, for the time being, that it was about a case of avi?ria grippe.
http://noticias.terra.com.br/ciencia/interna/0,,OI864991-EI298,00.html
Dr. Ibtisam Aziz, the official spokeswoman of the committee, said in a statement that ?a second case of one of the dead girl?s relatives, living in the same village also died.? The results of the lab examinations did not appear yet and ?they will immediately be announced as soon as being approved,? she said.
http://thekurdistani.com/news/content/view/1755/2/


#8
Name: unknown (7M)
Home Town/Province: ?
Date of Onset of Symptoms: ?
Date Hospitalized: Feb 05, 2006 - Erbil (Arbil)
Symptoms: ?
Status: ?
Others in Cluster & Relationship: Related to #9
Notes: Suspected infection of bird influenza virus - The two patients from Arbil, were breeding poultry in their homes and the birds died before the symptoms appeared on the woman and the boy. Now the two are tested for the disease,? the source added.
http://thekurdistani.com/news/content/view/1755/2/


#9
Name: unknown (24F)
Home Town/Province: ?
Date of Onset of Symptoms: ?
Date Hospitalized: Feb 05, 2006 - Erbil (Arbil)
Symptoms: ?
Status: ?
Others in Cluster & Relationship: Related to #8
Notes: Suspected infection of bird influenza virus - The two patients from Arbil, were breeding poultry in their homes and the birds died before the symptoms appeared on the woman and the boy. Now the two are tested for the disease,? the source added.
http://thekurdistani.com/news/content/view/1755/2/


#10? (may be confused with #11)
Name: ? (13/14M) 14-year-old died Sunday at Sadr General Hospital
d. Feb 05, 2006
Home Town/Province: Amarah (Omarah), 180 miles southeast of Baghdad
Date of Onset of Symptoms: Feb 01, 2006 (WHO report)
Date Hospitalized: Feb 05, 2006
Symptoms: Severe pneumonia
Notes: Pet birds kept by the family are said to have died near the time of symptom onset.


#11
Name: Mohanad Radi (24/30M) - pigeon breeder [aka Muhaned Radhi]
d. Feb 05, 2006
Home Town/Province: Amarah (Omarah)
Date of Onset of Symptoms: ?
Date Hospitalized: Jan 29, 2006? Discharged: Feb 03, 2006?
Symptoms: bird flu-like symptoms (Pro-Med email); "He was suffering from constant flu. In hospital he turned worse and began bleeding from both his mouth and nose, and then he died," said Jabbar Zahuri, 38, the dead man's uncle.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/COL053212.htm
Others in Cluster & Relationship: cousins - #14, #15, #16; siblings - #17, #18 - lived in same house.
Notes: The man was admitted to a city hospital suffering from the flu but was discharged after five days and subsequently died at home on Sunday. "We suspect he died of bird flu as our investigations revealed that he had birds at home and one of the pigeons was infected by H5N1," Maliki told AFP on Tuesday.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060207/wl_mideast_afp/healthfluiraqpigeon_060207132324;_ylt=AqkJ7h7YxoxxTCHFufaM71qKOrgF;_ylu=X3oDMTA2ZGZwam4yBHNlYwNmYw--
"Mohanad Radi, 30 years, which raises pigeons, was hospitalized during five days. It [he] died Sunday two days after having returned at his place," affirmed with AFP Adel Mohajar Al-Maliki, governor of the town of Amara, to 365 km in the south of Baghdad.
http://hosting.afp.com/clients/ikp/francais/actu/060207125417.3h6f1f8m.html


#12
Name: ? (infant - 4 months)
d. date? died after 3 days of symptoms
Reported: Feb 05, 2006
Home Town/Province: Tiqia, near Chamchamal, 60 km south of Soulaimiyah
Date of Onset of Symptoms: Jan 29, 2006?
Date Hospitalized: ?
Symptoms: strong fever, bleeding from nose
Others in Cluster & Relationship: Chadia Adnane, #13 - sister.
Notes: An infant of four months and half died after a strong fever which lasted three days then his/her three year old sister, Chadia Adnane Mohammad, developed the same symptoms. "It had, one week ago [Jan 29, 2006], a strong fever and blood ran of its nose but does not have vomit", told his/her uncle Rostom Hamma Amine. The child was initially transferred to the hospital from Chamchamal which kept it one day before returning it to it. "Its state worsened then we alerted the Minister for the Health Mohammad Khouchnou which came in person last Friday [Feb 03, 2006] to lead it to Soulaimaniyah", his/her uncle said, before adding that analyses are in hand to determine if it is infected.
http://www.institutkurde.org/afp/?src=http://afp.institutkurde.org/AFP/francais/topics/actu/060207152736.5ix5xdnq.xml


#13
Name: Chadia Adnane (3F)
d. date?
Reported: Feb 05, 2006
Home Town/Province: Tiqia, near Chamchamal, 60 km south of Soulaimiyah
Date of Onset of Symptoms: after infant sibling developed symptoms
Date Hospitalized: ?
Symptoms: strong fever, bleeding from nose
Others in Cluster & Relationship: infant, #12 - sibling
Notes: See #12.


#14
Name: Karim Salam (3F) [aka Mariam]
Home Town/Province: Amara
Date of Onset of Symptoms: ?
Date Hospitalized: Feb 08, 2006
Symptoms: "same symptoms as those having preceded death by their cousin"
Others in Cluster & Relationship: #11 - cousin, deceased; #15 & #16 - siblings
Notes: Inhabited in the same house of Mohanad Radii (#11).


#15
Name: Karar Salam (6M) [aka Krar]
Home Town/Province: Amara
Date of Onset of Symptoms: ?
Date Hospitalized: Feb 08, 2006
Symptoms: "same symptoms as those having preceded death by their cousin"
Others in Cluster & Relationship: #11 - cousin, deceased; #14 & #16 - siblings
Notes: Inhabited in the same house of Mohanad Radii (#11).


#16
Name: Mehdi Salam (7M) [aka Mahdi]
Home Town/Province: Amara
Date of Onset of Symptoms: ?
Date Hospitalized: Feb 08, 2006
Symptoms: "same symptoms as those having preceded death by their cousin"
Others in Cluster & Relationship: #11 - cousin, deceased; #14 & #15 - siblings
Notes: Inhabited in the same house of Mohanad Radii (#11).


#17
Name: Ali Radi (10M)
Home Town/Province: Amara
Date of Onset of Symptoms: ?
Date Hospitalized: Feb 10, 2006
Symptoms:
Others in Cluster & Relationship: #11 - brother, deceased; #14, #15 & #16 - cousins
Notes: Inhabited in the same house of Mohanad Radii (#11) and the 3 Salam siblings (#14-16).


#18
Name: Douaa Radi (7F)
Home Town/Province: Amara
Date of Onset of Symptoms: ?
Date Hospitalized: Feb 10, 2006
Symptoms:
Others in Cluster & Relationship: #11 - brother, deceased; #14, #15 & #16 - cousins
Notes: Inhabited in the same house of Mohanad Radii (#11) and the 3 Salam siblings (#14-16).


#19
Name: Aisha (?F)
Home Town/Province: Tngiroua region (5km south of Sulaymaniyah?)
Date of Onset of Symptoms: ?
Date Hospitalized: ? - Sulaymaniyah hospital
Symptoms: ?
Others in Cluster & Relationship: #20 - daughter
Notes: Reported on Feb 10 as "receiving treatment in the hospital"


#20
Name: Fardous (7F)
Home Town/Province: Tngiroua region (5km south of Sulaymaniyah?)
Date of Onset of Symptoms: ?
Date Hospitalized: ? - Sulaymaniyah hospital
Symptoms: ?
Others in Cluster & Relationship: #19 - mother
Notes: Reported on Feb 10 as "receiving treatment in the hospital"


#21
Name: ? (?M)
Home Town/Province: Al-Qadisiya region close to the Sulaymaniyah airport
Date of Onset of Symptoms: ?
Date Hospitalized: ? - Sulaymaniyah hospital
Symptoms: ?
Others in Cluster & Relationship: ?
Notes: Reported on Feb 10 as "receiving treatment in the hospital"


#22
Name: ? (~20F)
Home Town/Province: Hishou from Sulaymaniyah center
Date of Onset of Symptoms: ?
Date Hospitalized: ? - Sulaymaniyah hospital
Symptoms: ?
Others in Cluster & Relationship: ?
Notes: Reported on Feb 10 as "receiving treatment in the hospital"


#23
Name: Kagal (?M)
Home Town/Province: worker in Bazyan (60 km south of Sulaymaniyah)
Date of Onset of Symptoms: ?
Date Hospitalized: ? - Sulaymaniyah hospital
Symptoms: ?
Others in Cluster & Relationship: ?
Notes: Reported on Feb 10 as "receiving treatment in the hospital"


#24-#28
And the introduction of five my [new] disease suspected by their injury with influenza disease took place the birds Wednesday [Feb 08] at night to the hospital of the general As-Sulaymaniyah are what the total number is raised to ten persons. And said a doctor preferred the non revelation of his identity that yesterday evening five new cases came one of it from Taslouga region (51 km west of As-Sulaymaniyah) and four of Qara Dagh region (50 km in south of As-Sulaymaniyah).
http://tinyurl.com/a2gde


Rumors - Additional Patients/Clusters/Activity:

1/29 Kurdistan Health Minister Mohammed Khoshnow said that 30 other samples from northern Iraq were being tested. (AP) The U.N. official in Egypt who refused to be identified due to the sensitivity of the issue also said that 30 other samples from northern Iraq were being tested.

1/29 Reports of 5 or 8 being tested in Basra on 1/29. Reports pulled swiftly from wires. Mushtaq Al Halafi, Director of the Iraqi Committee on Bird Flu Follow Up said on 1/28 that more than 100 cases were examined in Basra and none of them was infected with the virus.

1/23 Basra...8 injuries by influenza disease the birds . And most of it focuses in Abu Al Khasib region and a single injury in Shatt al Arab region Al Tnouma and said Basra governor....And the denial of what circulated about that the injuries reason an injured poultry shipment coming from Iran where the examination of the shipment took place from the competent authority and made sure at it from the examination that the shipment not injured the birds Banflouanza. And the doctor Moayyad Hassan said the two gluttonous that supervise the unity of the urgent care in Basra hospital (the port in the past) is that one has met its death and she is seventh year old child.
http://efn.friendsofdemocracy.net/default.asp?item=138205

1/29: Kurdistan Health Ministry official Najimuldin Hassan: 14 people have recently been admitted to hospitals exhibiting bird flu symptoms but just 2 remain in Sulaimaniyah Teaching Hospital suspected of having the disease.

1/29: Maria Cheng (WHO) says this is a case of limited human-to-human spread of the virus. "Based on the evidence we have right now, I don't think we can rule it out." (Helen Branswell article)

1/29: 12 people reported quarantined near Suliamaniyah after they fell ill with pneumonia according to Imad Ahmed, Deputy Prime Minister of Sulaimaniyah in Northern Iraq.

1/31 "We have 12 patients in Sulaimaniya that have lung infections that we suspect may be the bird flu virus" Kurdistan's deputy prime minister, Imad Ahmed, told Reuters, referring to one of the regions largest cities."

1/31 "Kurdistan Minister of Health Mohammed Khashnow said that 15 people had been admitted to the main hospital in Sulaimaniyah within the past week with suspected bird flu infection. He added that all suspected cases were being kept in quarantine."

1/31 "A local health official in Kurdistan, who asked to remain anonymous, said that a total of 35 samples had been sent for analysis outside Iraq. All of them, he added, had displayed symptoms similar to those of the girl who died."

1/31 "5 Mobile hospitals were due to arrive in northern Iraq later today, according to Health Minister Abdel Mutalib Mohammed."

2/1 "Twelve more peole in the Kurdistan region are being treated for suspected infection, said Iraqi officials on Monday (30 January).

2/1 "According to the Ministry (Kurdish Ministry of Health), 13 other patients are now showing similar symptoms to a 15-year-old girl who died of the bird flu on 17 January in the northern town of Raniya. Most of these are being kept in the main hospital of nearby Sulaimaniyah.."

2/2 "Two other citizens have died of the infectious virus while two other cases are in intensive care, in addition to four other cases," Mohammed added (Mohammed quoted here is Nagmuddin Mohamed, the Manager of the Committee of the Health Protection of Kurdisan Region).

2/2 Report that "two children who died last week" but this may be confusion about victim #1, a girl (15) and her uncle, #2 (39/40) who were confirmed to have died from H5N1 last week. http://www.kurdmedia.com/news.asp?id=11064

2/2 From the Kurdish press, again a statement that "The number of suspected bird flu cases in humans rose to at least 32 in Kurdistan yesterday." It is not clear if they consider the area they are speaking of to be Iraqui Kurdistan or greater Kurdistan. http://www.kurdmedia.com/news.asp?id=11064

2/2 Mohammed (Kurdish Health Committee) said that in addition to the first victim, "Two other citizens have died of the infectious virus while two other cases are in intensive care, in addition to four other cases."

2/2 Al-Sulaimaniya, Iraq/Cairo (dpa) - A fresh bird flu scare has erupted in the Kurdish region in northern Iraq with reports of 162 suspected cases almost two weeks after a 15-year-old girl died of the deadly strain.

2/2 "In the Thursday issue of pan-Arab daily al-Hayat, the head of the pre-emption committee in the Kurdistan Province Najm Eddin Mohammed announced that 162 people have been admitted to the diagnosis center on suspicion of contracting the virus."

2/2 Many rumors have been circulating throughout northern Iraq about other possible cases of bird flu, and the reports will be investigated by WHO experts expected to arrive in the country by the end of this week, (WHO's Dick) Thompson said. "But people must remember that avian influenza is an extremely rare disease and is very difficult to catch," he said. http://cbs4.com/health/health_story_033005559.html

2/3 From Shannon: I just got word from my source inside Iraq. The number of dead in Iraq are strongly suspected at least at 8 and the "rumours" of the quarantine area and suspected cases are in fact, conservative. The source further says there are more than 300 suspected cases, and chaos is apparently reigning.

2/3 7,000 - 10,000 courses of Tamiflu being sent to Iraq.

2/5 The tests carried out by a London laboratory on samples coming from two other people having been in liaison with this teenager [Shangen - #1] appeared negative.... In addition to the died teenager, fourteen suspect cases were announced in Iraq, including two - a man and a woman - strongly suspected of being contaminated by mortal virus H5N1. http://hosting.afp.com/clients/ikp/francais/actu/060205162019.5xu38rfk.html

2/6 "Apart from the girl who died there are seven suspected cases of bird flu and we have taken their blood samples and sent them to Cairo for further investigation," Naeema al-Gasseer, the WHO representative in Iraq, told reporters. http://www.africasia.com/services/news/newsitem.php?area=mideast&item=060206101955.pha2bj19.php

2/7 In the city of Sulaimaniyah five people earlier suspected of suffering from bird flu were released Tuesday after their health improved following treatment, senior health official Mohammed Khushnow said. http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=15680

2/7 And in Najaf three individuals met from a single family in towards Al Abasia their death yesterday [Feb 06] the effect of doubts with their injury with influenza disease the birds and the Iraqi news agency correspondent in City of Najaf reported that three individuals, two men he exceeds their age the thirty and a woman an old they departed the life affected by a non discovered disease, after their taking before two days a food including the chickens.... [Deaths reported as pneumonia but] ...they will send samples of the deceased blood to Baghdad and hence they send to Egypt to be submitted to accurate analyses.
http://tinyurl.com/8xc3w

2/9 8 new suspected cases in Iraq - incld. 3 children (siblings) related to (cousins of) the pigeon breeder. Five persons have been ricoverate in the hospital of Soulaimaniyah, main city of the Kurdistan iracheno. "We have received a case from Tass Louja (15 kilometers more to the west, ndr) and four from Karadakh (50 kilometers more to south, ndr)", has indicated a turn doctor, that she has asked the anonymity. http://www.tio.ch/common_includes/pagine_comuni/articolo_interna.asp?idarticolo=257425&idtipo=2

2/9 The WHO has confirmed that seven patients are now being treated for similar symptoms in hospitals in Sulaimaniyah, in northern Iraq. Most of the patients reported a history of direct contact with poultry, the health organisation stated. Local medical workers say that many more cases are suspected in the north. Dr Ahmed Talbiti, an infections specialist in Sulaimaniyah, said there had been concern about a total of 26 suspected cases in the north, but that 15 had already been confirmed as negative. The rest, he added, are currently being tested in local laboratories. http://web.krg.org/articles/article_detail.asp?ArticleNr=9258&LangNr=12&LNNr=28&RNNr=70

2/10 Overall, 17 people have been suspected of contracting the disease since its outbreak in Kurdistan in January.
http://www.todayonline.com/articles/100377.asp

2/12 Authorities in Kurdistan had quarantined 18 people suspected of suffering from bird flu, of which 12 have been released after their health improved, a doctor from Sulaimaniyah told reporters. "Of the six, four are strong suspects of bird flu while the health of the other two has improved," the medic said. Ibtisam Aziz, head of a committee set up to fight the virus, said that the virus was still confined only to Serkikan village in Raniya district of Sulaimaniyah from the girl came from.
http://www.financialexpress-bd.com/index3.asp?cnd=2/12/2006&section_id=4&newsid=15562&spcl=no
 
Overview of possible/probable Iraq clusters

Overview of possible/probable Iraq clusters

Shangen Abdul Qader (15F) - Sarkapkan Village, Soulaimiyah [d.]
Hamma Sour Abdullah (39/40M) - Sarkapkan Village, Soulaimiyah [d.]
Miriam Qadar (54F) - Sarkapkan Village, Soulaimiyah (54F)
name unknown - cousin to Shangen Abdul Qader - Sarkapkan Village, Soulaimiyah [d.]

Chadia Adnane (3F) - Tiqia, Soulaimiyah
name unknown (4 months) - Tiqia, Soulaimiyah [d.]

Aisha (?F) - Tngiroua, Soulaimiyah
Fardous (7F) - Tnigiroua, Soulaimiyah

name unknown (7M) - Erbil
name unknown (24F) - Erbil

Mohanad Radi (24/30M) - Amarah [d.]
Karim Salam (3F) - Amarah
Karar Salam (6M) - Amarah
Mehdi Salam (7M) - Amarah
Ali Radi (10M) - Amarah
Douaa Radi (7F) - Amarah

name unknown (+30M) - Najaf [d.]
name unknown (+30M) - Najaf [d.]
name unknown (elderly F) - Najaf [d.]
 
Officials say no H5N1 in Basra

Officials say no H5N1 in Basra

There's no date on this article, unfortunately -- but I think it's from the Feb 08, 2006 edition of this paper.

Machine translated from Arabic:

Health sources ..She confirms the freedom of Basra of the bird flu and the discoverer he is a non killing Faerousat
Basra / the families

After the increase of rumours and press statements around the spread of the bird flu disease in Basra doctor Mahdi confirmed Abdul Sahib the deputy of the veterinary hospital manager is in Basra the emptiness of the governorate from virus the fatal disease until now and the non discovery of any state, and it added that the discovered in Basra was cases for the injury by the disease virus H8 and H9 and she is an ordinary Faerousat, but the killer Al Faerous is H5 and he not present in Basra.

From its side doctor Qusay Abdul Latif manager of the enlightenment section clarified the health in the department of the health of Basra governorate that it she did not record any injury by the virus of the fatal disease, and that Basra now is considered a safe region, but it prayed to the citizen to the caution with the dealing with the migrating birds and the necessity of the slaughter of the migrating birds and their burning, in addition to the necessity of the chickens leaving and Al Bid cooks by a high fire degree for his safety.

And the border outlets in Basra have prevented the entrance of laden trucks into the chickens and the eggs to the country after their arrival from an Arab Mnashia.

http://www.ahali-iraq.com/viewarticle.php?id=6083&pg=index&art=rp
 
4 people sent to Baghdad to hospital / birds drop dead out of the sky

4 people sent to Baghdad to hospital / birds drop dead out of the sky

Machine translation from Arabic:

The departure of tens of families from the regions the surrounding in Samarra for fear of the bird flu
Sunday 12, Febreuary 2006

Tens of families who live at the ends of Samarra city (120 km in north of Baghdad) Sunday with leaving their regions started for fear of the spread of the bird flu disease after many of the dead migrating birds fall on the land.

And according to the correspondent, these dead birds started falling since Saturday in the times regions (20 km south of) and the castle (6 km south of) where tens of it fell between the migrating birds flocks that were passing in the sky of those regions.

And Shaiban said his drawing (28 years) that with his four children Wouzougth escaped from the times region "it decided the escape from my house to Samarra where I feel more safety after the fall of two birds in front of my house Saturday in the morning."

And he added that "the birds that the land fell dead Gharib's inquirer got out of their beak and appeared very thin." And its drawing followed up "I carried out slaughter and burning of tens of poultry that I breed in my house for fear of the disease."

From its side Mohamed Ibrahim (36 years) who 6 km in south of Samarra to the city center escaped from Castle region with company said its husband and its children "tens of birds fell a dead of unknown reasons then it decided the escape to the city for fear of the injury of my children by this disease."

From its side the doctor Khaled Al Abbasi from the general hospital of Samarra confirmed "sending four men to Baghdad for their injury by pleasures a sharp influenza." And he added "the saying is not possible the four was injured by the bird flu despite the sharp symptoms that appeared on them and the laboratory examination the disease kind will define."

From its side she said by Soad Ahmed (35 years) who escaped from the times region to Samarra with her three children that does not carry except simple purposes "they watched the birds and she falls from the atmosphere and escaped with my children fearing for them from the bird flu."

And doctor Muhammad Al-Qaisi the responsible for the veterinary laboratories in Baghdad confirmed that "the initial symptoms for the injury of the birds with a virus +H5N1 the exit of liquids from the birds mouth and the redness of its head which calls for holding my interior examination for the determination of the injury accurately."

And the health headquarters has carried out in Salah Ad-Din's governorate sending medical groups for the verification of the order and holding examinations to the birds the dead and taking samples from them for holding the medical examination and defining the disease kind are as it declared a source from the governorate council.

And the source added "we carried out sending four medical groups for seeking the disease cases that led to the fall of the birds and their tunnel from them two teams to Samarra and a third team to the stage (205 km in north of Baghdad) and fourth to the regions of Waldgil country in south of Samarra."

And the source pointed to that "the regions that the health groups headed for it represents the migration line to the coming birds from north of to south of the country."

And the first death case by the bird flu disease has happened in Iraqi Kurdistan where she was recorded and Vatan is two certain by an influenza the birds and the entrance of five patients suspected by their injury with the disease took place Wednesday at night to the hospital of the general As-Sulaymaniyah what the number is raised the total for the injuries the suspects to ten in north of Iraq.

As a single person was dead in Amarah (265 km in south of Baghdad) by the bird flu disease symptoms but till now results did not appear the laboratory examination of samples of Mohannad Radi (30 years)'s blood that was fond of the aviculture.

While enter the building hospital five patients all from Radi's family members after on them symptoms appeared are a similar to the bird flu that claimed the life of their relative. And the laboratory examination results of samples of a blood did not appear these five until now as he reported a medical source in Al-Imarah city.

http://www.alhaqaeq.net/defaultch.asp?action=showarticle&secid=20&articleid=45705
 
Re: Pandemic Fears Rise as Bird Flu Spreads

Re: Pandemic Fears Rise as Bird Flu Spreads

It does present a worst case senerio.
 
4 people sent to Baghdad to hospital / birds drop dead out of the sky

4 people sent to Baghdad to hospital / birds drop dead out of the sky

4 people sent to Baghdad to hospital / birds drop dead out of the sky Machine translation from Arabic:

The departure of tens of families from the regions the surrounding in Samarra for fear of the bird flu
Sunday 12, Febreuary 2006

Tens of families who live at the ends of Samarra city (120 km in north of Baghdad) Sunday with leaving their regions started for fear of the spread of the bird flu disease after many of the dead migrating birds fall on the land.

And according to the correspondent, these dead birds started falling since Saturday in the times regions (20 km south of) and the castle (6 km south of) where tens of it fell between the migrating birds flocks that were passing in the sky of those regions.

And Shaiban said his drawing (28 years) that with his four children Wouzougth escaped from the times region "it decided the escape from my house to Samarra where I feel more safety after the fall of two birds in front of my house Saturday in the morning."

And he added that "the birds that the land fell dead Gharib's inquirer got out of their beak and appeared very thin." And its drawing followed up "I carried out slaughter and burning of tens of poultry that I breed in my house for fear of the disease."

From its side Mohamed Ibrahim (36 years) who 6 km in south of Samarra to the city center escaped from Castle region with company said its husband and its children "tens of birds fell a dead of unknown reasons then it decided the escape to the city for fear of the injury of my children by this disease."

From its side the doctor Khaled Al Abbasi from the general hospital of Samarra confirmed "sending four men to Baghdad for their injury by pleasures a sharp influenza." And he added "the saying is not possible the four was injured by the bird flu despite the sharp symptoms that appeared on them and the laboratory examination the disease kind will define."

From its side she said by Soad Ahmed (35 years) who escaped from the times region to Samarra with her three children that does not carry except simple purposes "they watched the birds and she falls from the atmosphere and escaped with my children fearing for them from the bird flu."

And doctor Muhammad Al-Qaisi the responsible for the veterinary laboratories in Baghdad confirmed that "the initial symptoms for the injury of the birds with a virus +H5N1 the exit of liquids from the birds mouth and the redness of its head which calls for holding my interior examination for the determination of the injury accurately."

And the health headquarters has carried out in Salah Ad-Din's governorate sending medical groups for the verification of the order and holding examinations to the birds the dead and taking samples from them for holding the medical examination and defining the disease kind are as it declared a source from the governorate council.

And the source added "we carried out sending four medical groups for seeking the disease cases that led to the fall of the birds and their tunnel from them two teams to Samarra and a third team to the stage (205 km in north of Baghdad) and fourth to the regions of Waldgil country in south of Samarra."

And the source pointed to that "the regions that the health groups headed for it represents the migration line to the coming birds from north of to south of the country."

And the first death case by the bird flu disease has happened in Iraqi Kurdistan where she was recorded and Vatan is two certain by an influenza the birds and the entrance of five patients suspected by their injury with the disease took place Wednesday at night to the hospital of the general As-Sulaymaniyah what the number is raised the total for the injuries the suspects to ten in north of Iraq.

As a single person was dead in Amarah (265 km in south of Baghdad) by the bird flu disease symptoms but till now results did not appear the laboratory examination of samples of Mohannad Radi (30 years)'s blood that was fond of the aviculture.

While enter the building hospital five patients all from Radi's family members after on them symptoms appeared are a similar to the bird flu that claimed the life of their relative. And the laboratory examination results of samples of a blood did not appear these five until now as he reported a medical source in Al-Imarah city.

http://www.alhaqaeq.net/defaultch.asp?action=showarticle&secid=20&articlei d=45705
 
WHO calms bird flu fear in Iraq

WHO calms bird flu fear in Iraq

WHO calms bird flu fear in Iraq
February 13, 2006

http://www.terra.net.lb/wp/Articles/DesktopArticle.aspx?ArticleID=270781&ChannelId=19

The World Health Organisation (WHO) attempted to calm bird flu fear across Iraq which has made people flee from some regions while in other areas a massive culling of birds was being carried out.

"At this moment this is just an agricultural emergency and still I can say that not every chicken is infected with avian influenza," said Dr Sam Yingst, a member of a WHO team who came to Baghdad after touring the northern Kurdistan area where the disease broke out last month.

Yingst, a veterinary virologist from Cairo, said the panic created by the first case had set off an extensive culling of poultry and birds across Iraq.

"At the moment the culling is extensive. Tens of thousands of birds have been killed in Arbil and around 200,000 in Sulaimaniyah," Yingst told reporters.

In January, a teenage girl from Sulaimaniyah's Raniya district was declared dead, with the cause being the deadly H5N1 virus. Her uncle, who died a few days later, was also a victim of the virus, according to an Iraqi official.

But on Sunday, an Iraqi official said that the country had only one confirmed case of H5N1 -- the girl from Raniya.

Ibtisam Aziz, spokeswoman of the government's Avian Influenza Technical Affairs Committee said the girl's uncle was still a suspect. There were also two other suspected cases in Sulaimaniyah and six in Amara.

Aziz has been working with the WHO teams in Kurdistan to monitor the spread of the virus.

"There is only one confirmed case of H5N1 in Iraq and that was the girl from Sulaimaniyah's Raniya region," Aziz told reporters in Baghdad.

Among the six suspected cases in Amara, one was the pigeon breeder who died recently after weeks of fever. The others were his relatives who were still alive, she said.

Meanwhile several families from Samarra, 125 kilometres (80 miles) north of Baghdad, have left their homes after finding the bodies of birds which had died while migrating from the north and heading south.

"Two birds fell down in front of my home and I ran away from my house as I am afraid that my family may catch this disease," said 28-year-old Shaiban Lafta, who left with his wife and four children, going towards Baghdad.

He said he had already killed dozens of chickens after he heard of the disease.
 
WHO calms bird flu fear in Iraq

WHO calms bird flu fear in Iraq

WHO calms bird flu fear in Iraq
February 13, 2006

http://www.terra.net.lb/wp/Articles/DesktopArticle.aspx?ArticleID=270781&ChannelId=19

The World Health Organisation (WHO) attempted to calm bird flu fear across Iraq which has made people flee from some regions while in other areas a massive culling of birds was being carried out.

"At this moment this is just an agricultural emergency and still I can say that not every chicken is infected with avian influenza," said Dr Sam Yingst, a member of a WHO team who came to Baghdad after touring the northern Kurdistan area where the disease broke out last month.

Yingst, a veterinary virologist from Cairo, said the panic created by the first case had set off an extensive culling of poultry and birds across Iraq.

"At the moment the culling is extensive. Tens of thousands of birds have been killed in Arbil and around 200,000 in Sulaimaniyah," Yingst told reporters.

In January, a teenage girl from Sulaimaniyah's Raniya district was declared dead, with the cause being the deadly H5N1 virus. Her uncle, who died a few days later, was also a victim of the virus, according to an Iraqi official.

But on Sunday, an Iraqi official said that the country had only one confirmed case of H5N1 -- the girl from Raniya.

Ibtisam Aziz, spokeswoman of the government's Avian Influenza Technical Affairs Committee said the girl's uncle was still a suspect. There were also two other suspected cases in Sulaimaniyah and six in Amara.

Aziz has been working with the WHO teams in Kurdistan to monitor the spread of the virus.

"There is only one confirmed case of H5N1 in Iraq and that was the girl from Sulaimaniyah's Raniya region," Aziz told reporters in Baghdad.

Among the six suspected cases in Amara, one was the pigeon breeder who died recently after weeks of fever. The others were his relatives who were still alive, she said.

Meanwhile several families from Samarra, 125 kilometres (80 miles) north of Baghdad, have left their homes after finding the bodies of birds which had died while migrating from the north and heading south.

"Two birds fell down in front of my home and I ran away from my house as I am afraid that my family may catch this disease," said 28-year-old Shaiban Lafta, who left with his wife and four children, going towards Baghdad.

He said he had already killed dozens of chickens after he heard of the disease.
 
Iraq steps up bird flu fight with US help

Iraq steps up bird flu fight with US help

Iraq steps up bird flu fight with US help

2/12/2006
http://www.financialexpress-bd.com/index3.asp?cnd=2/12/2006&section_id=4&newsid=15562&spcl=no

A LARGE consignment of masks, gloves and gowns was on its way from the United States to Iraq last Monday to help the war-torn country fight off an already deadly outbreak of bird flu in Iraqi Kurdistan. "What Iraq needs is lots of personal protection equipment such as masks, gloves, gowns and disinfectants to curb the spread of the disease," said Jon C. Bowersox, health attache with the US embassy in Iraq.


"A 900 kilo consignment of this equipment is on its way from the United States to Iraq and will arrive here in the next two days," he told the news agency. Bowersox said the consignment will be distributed not just in Kurdistan where the first case of bird flu in the country has been registered, but across the entire country. "The idea is to prepare Iraq to ward off any widespread threat. The health ministry will distribute the equipment across the country as we have to take precautions," he said.

Bowersox, who is working with the Iraqi health ministry to help check the spread of the deadly H5N1 virus, said the issue was not that of shortage of medicines or equipment but of making it quickly available. The World Health Organisation (WHO) said it was dispatching thousands of doses of the anti-influenza drug Tamiflu after reports that there was an acute shortage of the drug. Meanwhile, a two-member team of WHO veterinarians left for Arbil to join the other eight-member team which landed in Kurdistan last Sunday. The two teams will work jointly to probe the spread of the virus which last month claimed its only victim in Iraq.

A teenage girl from Kurdistan had died from the H5N1 virus, though initial reports from a WHO laboratory in Amman said that test results for the virus were negative.

Tests were still under way in Britain on virus samples from the girl's uncle, who died last week of a pulmonary infection, and from a woman who hails from the same region and remains in hospital. WHO last Sunday warned that the disease could turn into a human emergency, if not tackled on a war-footing. "At the moment this is an agricultural emergency," said Sam Yingst, member of the team that left for Arbil Monday.

"But we believe that there is a possibility that it may become a human public emergency though it will require a significant change in the nature of the virus."

A massive cull of poultry has been underway in the northern Kurdistan region after the outbreak of the H5N1 strain of the avian influenza virus among birds.

Yingst said the tests on the second individual, which are currently underway in Britain, would be the key. "We will come to know from the tests of the second person whether or not the virus has shifted or drifted, but at the moment there is no indication of that because, had it occurred, there would have been more cases," he told reporters.

"And if at all it has happened, then this possibility has been elevated by a very significant notch."

In the eastern province of Diyala, along the Iranian border, health ministry officials are already spreading disinfectant around poultry producing areas.

Authorities in Kurdistan had quarantined 18 people suspected of suffering from bird flu, of which 12 have been released after their health improved, a doctor from Sulaimaniyah told reporters.

"Of the six, four are strong suspects of bird flu while the health of the other two has improved," the medic said.

Ibtisam Aziz, head of a committee set up to fight the virus, said that the virus was still confined only to Serkikan village in Raniya district of Sulaimaniyah from the girl came from.

Turkey, which has had 21 cases of the flu strain, was previously the only country outside Asia to report fatalities from the virus. Four people have died there.

The first known cases of H5N1 in humans were recorded in Hong Kong in 1997, when six people died.

Since the virus resurfaced in Asia in 2003 there have been 160 confirmed cases, 86 of them fatal.
 
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Re: WHO calms bird flu fear in Iraq

Re: WHO calms bird flu fear in Iraq

6 more Iraqis may be victims of bird flu
By Edward Wong
The New York Times
Published: Monday, February 13, 2006

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraqi doctors are investigating six suspected cases of bird flu in southern Iraq, including one in which a 25-year-old fisherman died after contact with birds he was keeping in his yard, Iraqi and U.S. health officials said Sunday.

Tests are being performed to determine whether the fisherman, who died in a hospital after exhibiting symptoms of bird flu for more than two weeks, was infected with the A(H5N1) strain of the virus that causes bird flu, said Dr. Ibitsam Aziz, a spokeswoman for an Iraqi government committee looking into the flu.
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A(H5N1) is the deadly strain that scientists believe was carried by migrating bird populations from Asia, where it was first identified, into the Middle East, Africa and parts of Europe. It has raised concerns of a possible human pandemic.

The fisherman entered the hospital a week after contracting a fever, Aziz said. He had a high fever and a cough, but X-rays showed no pneumonia, she added. Two weeks after the fever began, the man had difficulty breathing, and his white blood cell count rose sharply.

Five of the man's cousins, who had been living with him in the city of Amara and had also come into contact with the birds, are also being tested.

A positive result would show that the strain had spread to the impoverished Shiite heartland of southern Iraq, where the quality of communications and health care is much lower than elsewhere in the country.

The only confirmed human case of bird flu in Iraq was reported in late January in Iraqi Kurdistan by health officials after tests showed that a Kurdish girl had died from the virus. Two other suspected cases in the same area are being investigated.

http://www.registerguard.com/news/2006/02/13/a5.int.iraqflu.0213.p1.php?section=nation_world
 
U.S. Team Finishes Iraq Bird Flu Inspection

U.S. Team Finishes Iraq Bird Flu Inspection

Feb 13, 4:50 PM EST
U.S. Team Finishes Iraq Bird Flu Inspection
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) -- A team of U.S. health experts left Iraq on Monday after completing an inspection of areas in northern Iraq where the country's only confirmed bird flu case in a human was found.
Health authorities believe one other suspect case, the dead uncle of the 15-year-old girl confirmed as having the deadly H5N1 strain, may also have contracted the disease, but final tissue sample results have not yet been obtained.
About nine other people have been hospitalized with bird flu-like symptoms, but tests have not yet confirmed they carry the disease.
The team from the World Health Organization, which was assisted by two American veterinary scientists based at a U.S. Navy laboratory in Egypt, arrived in Iraq between Feb. 4-5 and visited areas health facilities across northern Iraq as well as the town of Raniya where the girl who had bird flu came from.
U.S. Embassy health attache Jon Bowersox said the two American scientists returned to Cairo on Monday carrying samples of several suspect cases to be tested at their laboratory. The results can take between 24 hours to two weeks to come through.
WHO spokesman Dick Thompson said the six-member U.N. health team would remain in Iraq for several more days.
The team urged Iraqi authorities to continue implementing strict agricultural controls and said information on curbing the deadly virus will be distributed, Bowersox said.
Tamiflu medicine to treat bird flu is being sent to Iraq, while more equipment, such as personal protection clothing, is needed, Bowersox said.
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Meanwhile, five angry poultry farmers interrupted a press conference on bird flu Monday, demanding compensation for culling their chickens as part of efforts to contain the disease.
But Agriculture Minister Ali al-Bahadli said authorities were responsible for compensating bird owners who had killed birds within a 20 mile radius of Raniya, the Kurdistan town where the girl who had bird flu came from.
"We didn't give orders to cull birds in other places and we are not responsible for those who cull their birds by themselves," al-Bahadli told the protesters.
Bird flu has killed at least 88 people in Asia and Turkey since 2003, according to the WHO. A WHO-sanctioned laboratory recently confirmed another two deaths in Indonesia. Birds carrying the virus have also been detected in Italy, Greece and Nigeria.

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Announcement: Mohannad Radi tests negative for bf / family discharged

Announcement: Mohannad Radi tests negative for bf / family discharged

Machine translated from Arabic:

Cooperative efforts for fighting the influenza
Feb 14, 2006

The manager of the department of the initial health care in Messan Governate reported by south of Iraq the doctor Heidar Abdul Hussein Reda that the man who was dead in Al-Imarah city a week before was not injured with the bird flu. And the international efforts collaborated for the inclusion of an offspring "H5N1" the killing who the virus causing the disease and that was discovered is in many of the European countries and the African ones.

And the Iraqi doctor announced by that "the results of the laboratory examinations that the World Health Organization laboratories held they proved that Mohannad Radi (30 a year) the one that was dead last Sunday in the region was not injured with the bird flu disease". And he added that "its five brothers who enter the hospital for the suspicion in their injury with the disease they left it after the assurance of their non injury".

Meanwhile, he generalized the readiness in three continents with the increase of the states suspect of their injury with the bird flu in different areas from the world. And international experts joined their local counterparts in north of Nigeria for the aid in the inclusion of virus spread "H5N1" the one that was discovered in an eight in the Nigerian states.
And in Indonesia, two husbands subjected for the surveillance in a hospital in Jakarta after they were injured by the problems of respiration and a fever after their dealing with poultry it died suddenly. And in Europe, the fears increased after the discovery of the virus at dead birds in Italy and Greece and Bulgaria and Croatia and Romania and Ukraine and Slovenia.

http://www.annaharonline.com/htd/OLA060214-6.HTM
 
Another suspect case from Bazyan - Feb 07

Another suspect case from Bazyan - Feb 07

An older story (still trying to fill in the blanks), but with some info we don't already have. Another suspect case -- Shadia Adnan Amin 4 years from Bazyan. We know of 2 other suspect cases from Bazyan -- one is the poultry butcher -- another one is described as a "worker". No indications of any relationship between any of these 3 individuals is given (of course).

(The article was written as one, looooong run-on sentence -- I've imposed some divisions for clarity, but didn't add any punctuation.)

Machine translated from Arabic:

Khoushnaw : bringing 12 person of the hospital after the improvement of their health state - The international health analyzes samples of my disease Iraqis it suspects their injury by the bird flu
Baghdad - on Khalil As-Sulaymaniyah - the time
Feb 07, 2006

The minister of health in the As-Sulaymaniyah administration confirmed that "4 persons only from the origin of 18 their injury with the bird flu disease in Kurdistan suspect Iraq", and said the minister Mohamed Khoushnaw in a press conference that was held yesterday that "18 persons you enter the As-Sulaymaniyah hospital since the emergence of the disease and bringing 12 of these injured has taken place from the hospital because of the improvement of their health state", adding that "2 of these the sick the four also they were submitted to a superior medical care and their health state improved", and Khoushnaw expected that "the health state improves to the four injured in a noticeable way in the coming few days because of their handling of the anti-disease that came recently medicines to Krdstan region"

From its side, confirmed a medical source in the As-Sulaymaniyah hospital "the entrance of a child it claims Shadia Adnan Amin 4 years from the residence of Bazyan region 60 km are in the south of As-Sulaymaniyah the hospital for the suspicion in its injury with the bird flu disease"

And the indication is worthy, that the region government slaughtered about 500 thousand birds in a wide border region from Iraqi Kurdistan, after it confirmed the Ministry of Health the fall of the first case is a death by the bird flu

And a delegation from the World Health Organization has headed the day before yesterday for Arbela governorate in a region Krdstan at the request of from the Iraqi government, and the inclusion of 3 of the senior doctors in the specializations of the agriculture and the life sciences is Al Bayoulougi and the medicine and the veterinary medicine medicine and they are doctor Gohn Baosouks and the doctor are poisonous it lowers it and doctor Stiff Filt is from the medical unit the worker in Cairo in the research center belonging to the international laboratory of the World Health Organization the responsible for the health of 23 countries from Pakistan and until Morocco

And doctor Baorsouks said in a press conference that was held inside green zone in Baghdad before the departure of the delegation that "a team the medical research and the crew of the military medicine wait for the examinations results on 8-10 states [cases] that sent to Britain that suffers problems in or from problems in the respiratory system", adding that "a team H5N1 the respiration it did not know until now its reasons he due to Al Faerous A last he will head from Jordan for Arbela so that he joins the first team who faced the Iraqi minister of health", pointing that "the Ministry of Health she allocated an operation room in cooperation with the ministries of agriculture and Interior Ministry to the supervision over the way of getting rid from the bodies of the injured birds and he was knocked its upbringing and its production and its sale in the markets"

From its side doctor Stiff Filt mentioned that "it is important the prevention of the children from the playing by the birds the domestic and its non entrance the house and also its non slaughter by the hand because most recorded states were as a result to the slaughter of birds by the two hands which causes the move of the disease that creates with abundance in the liquids inside the birds", attracting to a necessity "the dealing with this topic with each transparency who a sake of the non rumors occurrence it causes the panic at the people", and the team of the international search clarified that "the states [cases] in Iraq she less than them by many of what in Turkey or The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and that because of the strictness in the system of the Iraqi food sufficiency", confirming that "statistics the Ministry of Health in Iraq points to 20 percent from the poultry it produces in the inside in Hin Ytm the import of 80 percent from the outside", calling for a necessity "the commitment to the protection instructions then she more important than the vaccine and she you do not exceed washing the hands and wearing the protective gloves and the protection masks during an appeal with those animals".

And in the context himself, the international organization for the health of the animal yesterday confirmed that "Iraq informed about the occurrence of an outbreak to the bird flu amid the poultry in As-Sulaymaniyah and she is the same region in which a girl was dead by the disease last month", and she said the organization that takes who Paris a headquarters of her that "the examinations result on the poultry in two villages in As-Sulaymaniyah she showed the presence of the bird flu virus", a hosting "about 650 birds of tunnel and the slaughter of 2500 in the outbreak that started 18 January", pointing that "the control measures on the disease spreading in the countries and from them the operations of slaughter and quarantine and the restriction of the move inside the countries". From its side, he confirmed the doctor Gamal Abd the mild the minister of health in Arbela administration "that he until now any cases did not appear within the governorates of Arbela and Dahouk and no until states doubtful in it and the disease is restricted in the As-Sulaymaniyah governorate alone".

http://www.inciraq.com/Arabic/Press/2006/Feb/060207_News%20of%20the%20Day04.htm#خوشناو:_إخراج_12_شخصاً_من_المستشفي_بعد_تحسن_حالتهم_الصحية_
 
The latest (denials) from Iraq

The latest (denials) from Iraq

Officials deny any problems with dying migratory birds in Samarra...meanwhile, the Minister of Health brings a thousand doses of Tamiflu with him to Basra (where there also is no bird flu)....

Nothing to see here -- move along.

Machine translation from Arabic:

Health and veterinary sources: the disease controlled on it and he is in its narrowest states
Feb 14, 2006
Baghdad - the governorates - big numbers death Al Sbahtnfi is from the birds

The Ministry of Agriculture declared that it did not record any injury by the bird flu disease in the fields of the widespread poultry by all the countries regions, pointing that the signed injuries discovered in the house birds, while the minister of health with him carried to Basra thousand doses from the disease treatment drug. [Despite the fact that there is "no bird flu in Basra...."]

To be ready to the possible injuries, while the general company denied for the veterinary medicine the death of big numbers from the birds in Samarra, also some of the governorates witness preventive measures for the prevention of the entrance of the disease virus to them. And doctor Dawoud Mohamed said Sherif the veterinary medicine general manager in a seminar about the bird flu disease held in the Ministry of Health yesterday that the Ministry of Agriculture why any injury records by the bird flu disease in the fields of the widespread poultry in Iraq areas whether the meat chickens or the whiteness or the mothers .. While pointed that the signed injuries were discovered in the house birds.

The disease controlled on it

And the veterinary medicine general manager reassured all that the disease is dominant on him and he is in his narrowest states, confirming that at the department advanced wandering laboratories very and two of these integrated laboratories are found in each governorate and several advanced diagnosis is possessed from the better Al Mnashe in the world.

From its side the doctor confirmed Aziz's smiling the spokeswoman the upper committee for the surveillance of the disease that the Cabinet approved since October month is from last year the formation of a supreme committee from the ministries of agriculture and health and the Interior Ministry and the upbringing and the education the high and the committee prepared a plan for the confrontation of the disease whose arrival at Iraq is expected through the migrating birds ..Also she emerged about it subcommittees make according to a detailed plan towards any expected injury by the disease all over Iraq.

The non damaging the poultry

In a related context doctor Ali Al Bhadli the minister of agriculture in the seminar herself stressed that the ministry was not issued any instructions regarding damaging the products of the present poultry in the shops and the poultry fields ..Confirming that the ministry rises with the compensation of the owners of fields and the birds in case of decided is damaging the present birds in a region what in if a state observed an injury in them.

And in the context himself doctor Sabah Abdul Galil the operation room official in the Ministry of Health clarified that the correctness circles in Baghdad and the governorates all mobilizing and round-the-clock to be ready to any disease Lfaerous move state to the human being .. Attracting that the attitude is very reassuring despite the appearance of limited injuries ..Pointing that the big seriousness is to influenza disease the birds lurk in case of the occurrence of the operation of Al Faerous move among the human being but that did not happen until now while the Ministry of Health took the practical measures that should take to be ready to this state.

On the other hand doctor Abdul Mottaleb Mohamed Ali the minister of health met with the councillors of Basra governorate and a general manager the correctness of the preservation and the presidents of the health enterprises and the supporting headquarters yesterday and discussed with them the readiness of the preservation for the confrontation of the bird flu disease and the measures whose taking is necessary to be ready to the appearance of new injuries in Iraq and the region the southern especially. And the minister called for the necessity of the citizens enlightenment and the observer of the border centers to the non leakage of the birds who neighboring countries. And the minister carried with him thousand dose of the disease treatment to Basra governorate to be ready to possible injuries. And the constituency of Basra health represented earlier a specialized operation room for the confrontation of the disease while the governorate council prevented the entrance of the poultry by different its kinds from the border regions and the near governorates.

The veterinary medicine denies

To that the general company denied for the veterinary medicine in the Ministry of Agriculture the news that circulated around the death of terrific numbers from the birds the land in Samaria District and the escape of tens of families in them are an effect that .. Confirming that those news that the distortion and the exaggeration defeated largely.

And the general manager assistant said that to the company doctor Saadi is Hou-Pei in a special statement to "the morning" that the company is through the veterinary groups belonging to the veterinary hospital in Tikrit city took the effect of the news spreading yesterday morning with the visit of the justice, confirming that it did not find any high Hlakat between the land birds in the justice and specially my region (the times) and (the castle) and that the issues that found and that described them as the few and ordinary and happens between the emigrating land birds because of several diseases Kalbnoukasl and other ..A denying the news that the birds Hlakat result spoke about and produces a state from the panic between them .. Hinting by that the families if they have left the mentioned regions then not because of what frequented from news he described them that they perverted and exaggerated largely.

From its side the general hospital manager of Samarra denied the doctor Ahmed Gaafar yesterday Monday the presence of any suspicion with injury by the bird flu disease in the city .. [Earlier story in the press said that 4 people with severe influenza symptoms were sent from this region to a hospital in Baghdad.]

And he clarified in a press statement that the region is empty until now from any injuries or until from the cases that are suspected by its injury with the disease.

And he added that "our region from the nominated regions very for the occurrence of injuries for its occurrence between the villages and the countryside and for the presence of many of the poultry fields in it but we as a hospital did not record until now any cases never".

A seminar

And in Al Diwania the health headquarters in Al Diwania governorate arranged an expanded cultural seminar about a disease (the bird flu) many of the circumstances of this disease after its appearance in some countries and the fear of its outbreak was discussed it in Iraq. And he said a doctor in the headquarters to "the morning" that the seminar comes within a series of seminars that the constituency make for the enlightenment of the citizens with the seriousness of the disease and the ways of his spread and the way of the protection from him pointing that four other seminars will arrange through the few days the next the officials of the units of the health enlightenment participate in it in the health centers in the governorate and specialists and media men and the poultry breeding fields friends and veterinarians handle the importance of the commitment by the instructions that the health headquarters issue in this topic and the adherence to it to keep the safety of the citizens.

From its side the union of the peasant and cooperative societies established in the governorate a series of the cultural and instructional seminars of the educator of the domestic birds around the protection ways from this disease.

And Hassan Nagm Al Adli the Naeb Res Al Athad said to "the morning" that a big number of the similar seminars were held to the farmers and the farmers in the center of governorate and districts and the sides belonging to them for their enlightenment with the disease move ways and his symptoms and a way the protection is from it. While the veterinary medicine department spread in coordination with the circles of agriculture and environment in Waset Governate a large amount of the poisoned grains and the insecticides for the sake of the killing of all migrating birds and the land one that can land on a land the preservation for fear of is to be carrier to the bird flu disease.

And a source in the veterinary medicine department said to "the morning" this campaign is considered one of the precautionary plans that can prevent the entrance of the disease to our city after it came to the near governorates, and it continued the source: spreading these grains took place the poisoned in regions outside the city and especially that that rest house stations of the emigrating birds and that can have load is the disease with them.

In a related context in Waset Governate a wide campaign for the prevention of the spread of the bird flu disease in the governorate started and the veterinary medicine department issued a decision that orders the non permission for the sale of the birds and especially the land birds and the ducks that are sold in the city markets in the past and tightening the supervision on the traders by them.

And in Babylon the governorate council decided the alive prevention of the poultry entrance by her kinds and the drawn one to the governorate to be ready to the move of the bird flu disease to Babylon that was still empty from it. And a source in the council said to "the morning" it an approval was decided two massacres for the supply of the chickens to the preservation they will be surrounded by the caution highest degree through tightening the health and veterinary supervision on them while the production of rest massacres and the poultry fields will prevent from the entrance of the cities.

Measures in Maysan

And in Maysan a constituency decided the correctness of the preservation the allocation of five halls for the follow-up of the injury cases that may happen by the bird flu disease.

And the media spokesman clarified to health circle the Alawi Gamal Nasif Messan Governate: the five halls are distributed as much as a hall in each of the fevers hospitals and on the western and auspicious and Big Hungary and Saleh Castle ..Also a sending took place two doctors and my examiner for the subscription with fast turn in Baghdad for the increase of the information and the recognition of the operation of taking the preventive means related to the bird flu disease, as a nomination (20) took place a volunteering from the citizens for their entrance in a round about the way of spraying the sterilization items by an item (Al Sircon), and the upper added that the governorate was divided on three categories ( أ , by ج ) and includes category ( أ ) the region in which the injury and the regions near to them happened and the execution of all includes the work in them the birds and the poultry and the measure of the laboratory sackcloth to the citizens and randomly ..While the work includes in the other categories the establishment of the work for the health education and holding the cultural seminars by the dangers of this disease and taking the means the precautionary.

http://www.alsabaah.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=18225
 
Bird Flu Alert Declared in Southern Iraq

Bird Flu Alert Declared in Southern Iraq

Bird Flu Alert Declared in Southern Iraq
By HAIDER HANI, Associated Press Writer

AMARAH, Iraq - Iraqi authorities have declared a bird flu alert in a southern province and called for security forces to prevent people from carrying birds in and out of the area, officials said Wednesday.

The alert is the latest measure taken by Iraqi health authorities to combat the deadly H5N1 bird flu strain following last month's discovery of the country's only confirmed case of the disease in a human.

Minister Abdel Mutalib Mohammed declared the alert after birds suspected of having the disease were discovered in Maysan province, a major southern trade route in Iraq, said Dr. Ibtisam Aziz Ali, spokeswoman for a government committee on bird flu.

Mohammed said the government has to "totally close" Maysan using Iraqi soldiers and police and carry out culling of poultry. He held talks late Tuesday with local health authorities and tribal sheiks in Amarah, 180 miles southeast of Baghdad, to brief them on the bird flu threat and government measures to combat it.

"The disease has apparently spread among local birds, not migratory birds," Mohammed said. "I have seen five centers where infections have been detected by rapid laboratory testing. Now we have declared a state of health alert."

Maysan includes some of Iraq's famous marshlands, and U.S. and U.N. officials fear the deadly disease could spread rapidly if it reaches the area rich in bird life.

Mohammed will formally announce the alert later Wednesday in Amarah, where a team of experts from the World Health Organization is expected to visit.

Bird flu has killed at least 91 people since 2003, according to the World Health Organization. Almost all the human deaths have been linked to contact with infected poultry, but experts fear the H5N1 virus could mutate into a form that spreads easily among people, possibly sparking a pandemic.

Tests are being carried out at a WHO-approved lab in Egypt on samples taken from about 10 suspect human cases in Iraq, including the dead uncle of a girl who died Jan. 17 of the disease in Iraq's northern Kurdistan region.

Among the samples are those taken from an Amarah man who owned birds and died earlier this month. Five of his relatives were also hospitalized with flu-like symptoms, but Iraqi officials have said since they do not suspect they had H5N1. [They're now claiming that he died of tuberculosis -- see post below.]

The WHO team arrived in Iraq on Feb. 4, traveling extensively throughout Kurdistan to learn how the disease was introduced to the country, promote ways to treat it and prevent its spread.

Experts believe the disease was introduced to Iraq by migratory birds, which follow a southward path through Kurdistan along the Euphrates and Tigris rivers to the southern marshlands, before continuing into Kuwait and Africa.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060215/ap_on_he_me/iraq_bird_flu_1
 
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