Ronan Kelly
Retired 2020
Perhaps this reporter should have paid a little more attention, but seriously is somebody at WHO assessing the effectiveness of their workshop if this muddled mess is the result?
H1N1 avian influenza
: Bird flu hits in September but it?s better to be safe than sorry, say experts
Published: June 24, 2011
KARACHI:
Workshop visitors wondered why bird flu awareness started so early in the year, since the influenza hits in September, when birds in Siberia spread their wings to migrate to the coastal areas of Pakistan. Usually that?s when health experts caution the break of H1N1 avian influenza or bird flu, which the birds pass on to humans.
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A programme was organised at Marriot Hotel for the prevention and control of the pandemic avian influenza H1N1em on Thursday. The Pakistan Government ministry of health and the Associations of Health Journalists of Pakistan organised the seminar in collaboration with the United Nations Children?s Fund (Unicef).
The World Health Organisation (WHO) declared bird flu a global pandemic (stage 6) in 2009 after evidence showed that it was spreading in the southern hemisphere. ?There is no chance the virus will come to Pakistan,?
dismissed Sindh Health Secretary Syed Hashim Raza Zaidi, adding, ?But safety and preventive measures of all influenza viruses are important.?
The national cell received 2,000 samples for testing from 2009 to 2011 and 702 samples tested positive for H1N1, according to the Ministry of Health, Islamabad National Programme for the Control and Prevention of Avian & Pandemic Influenza (NPCPAI) programme manager, Dr Salma Kausar Ali. So far this year, there have been 12 reported deaths due to the disease, while 37 cases have been confirmed.
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http://tribune.com.pk/story/195172/...its-better-to-be-safe-than-sorry-say-experts/
H1N1 avian influenza
: Bird flu hits in September but it?s better to be safe than sorry, say experts Published: June 24, 2011
KARACHI:
Workshop visitors wondered why bird flu awareness started so early in the year, since the influenza hits in September, when birds in Siberia spread their wings to migrate to the coastal areas of Pakistan. Usually that?s when health experts caution the break of H1N1 avian influenza or bird flu, which the birds pass on to humans.
emA programme was organised at Marriot Hotel for the prevention and control of the pandemic avian influenza H1N1
em on Thursday. The Pakistan Government ministry of health and the Associations of Health Journalists of Pakistan organised the seminar in collaboration with the United Nations Children?s Fund (Unicef).The World Health Organisation (WHO) declared bird flu a global pandemic (stage 6) in 2009 after evidence showed that it was spreading in the southern hemisphere. ?There is no chance the virus will come to Pakistan,?
dismissed Sindh Health Secretary Syed Hashim Raza Zaidi, adding, ?But safety and preventive measures of all influenza viruses are important.?The national cell received 2,000 samples for testing from 2009 to 2011 and 702 samples tested positive for H1N1, according to the Ministry of Health, Islamabad National Programme for the Control and Prevention of Avian & Pandemic Influenza (NPCPAI) programme manager, Dr Salma Kausar Ali. So far this year, there have been 12 reported deaths due to the disease, while 37 cases have been confirmed.
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http://tribune.com.pk/story/195172/...its-better-to-be-safe-than-sorry-say-experts/