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More Karachi Farm Workers Under Observation
Recombinomics Commentary 00:21
February 3, 2008
Around 800 more chickens died on Saturday in a poultry farm reportedly owned by the Rangers. The farm is located adjacent to the one in which Friday?s laboratory test confirmed the outbreak of the H5N1 strain of bird flu. The discovery compelled officials to put nine people, including four Rangers? personnel under observation, Health officials said.
Nine poultry workers associated with the adjacent farm are being monitored by doctors twice a day - morning and evening. Three workers of ?Uni Poultry Farm? have been kept at the isolation ward of the Civil Hospital, Karachi.
The three workers of the affected poultry farm who were taken Friday to the isolation ward of Civil Hospital Karachi (CHK) have shown no symptoms yet, Daily Times learnt Saturday.
Hospital sources confirmed that Allah Dino, S/O Muhammad Hussain, his brother Ghulam Hussain, 25, and Muhammad Aslam, 25, S/O Muhammad Bangul, were all workers at the Dr Hamid Poultry Farm.
?There have been no symptoms that suggest they have been infected by the virus yet,? sources said. Their samples have been sent to the National Reference Lab in Islamabad and the reports will come in a few days, they added.
The above comments provide more detail on the three farm workers in isolation, but a discription of their symptoms is still vague. It is likely that the dead birds on the adjacent farm were also infected with H5N1 and all 18-21 workers on the two farms had some exposure, but only three are in isolation.
It seems likely that these three have symptoms that caused their isolation, but those symptoms remain unclear.
Pakistan has now put hospitals throughout the country on high alert, in large part because of these outbreaks near Karachi. However, there are rumored outbreaks elsewhere in the south, and it seems likely that there are ongoing issues with H5N1 in the north (see satellite map here and here).
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http://www.recombinomics.com/News/02030801/Karachi_Observation.html
Recombinomics Commentary 00:21
February 3, 2008
Around 800 more chickens died on Saturday in a poultry farm reportedly owned by the Rangers. The farm is located adjacent to the one in which Friday?s laboratory test confirmed the outbreak of the H5N1 strain of bird flu. The discovery compelled officials to put nine people, including four Rangers? personnel under observation, Health officials said.
Nine poultry workers associated with the adjacent farm are being monitored by doctors twice a day - morning and evening. Three workers of ?Uni Poultry Farm? have been kept at the isolation ward of the Civil Hospital, Karachi.
The three workers of the affected poultry farm who were taken Friday to the isolation ward of Civil Hospital Karachi (CHK) have shown no symptoms yet, Daily Times learnt Saturday.
Hospital sources confirmed that Allah Dino, S/O Muhammad Hussain, his brother Ghulam Hussain, 25, and Muhammad Aslam, 25, S/O Muhammad Bangul, were all workers at the Dr Hamid Poultry Farm.
?There have been no symptoms that suggest they have been infected by the virus yet,? sources said. Their samples have been sent to the National Reference Lab in Islamabad and the reports will come in a few days, they added.
The above comments provide more detail on the three farm workers in isolation, but a discription of their symptoms is still vague. It is likely that the dead birds on the adjacent farm were also infected with H5N1 and all 18-21 workers on the two farms had some exposure, but only three are in isolation.
It seems likely that these three have symptoms that caused their isolation, but those symptoms remain unclear.
Pakistan has now put hospitals throughout the country on high alert, in large part because of these outbreaks near Karachi. However, there are rumored outbreaks elsewhere in the south, and it seems likely that there are ongoing issues with H5N1 in the north (see satellite map here and here).
:tiphat:
http://www.recombinomics.com/News/02030801/Karachi_Observation.html
