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WHO sees continuing human risk from bird flu

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WHO sees continuing human risk from bird flu

GENEVA (Reuters) - No human cases of avian flu have been found in India, Egypt or Nigeria but transmission risks remain as long as the virus is present in birds, the World Health Organization said on Tuesday.

WHO spokesman Dick Thompson told a press briefing that "a number of people" with flu-like symptoms have been tested for the H5N1 strain in the three countries, where outbreaks have been reported in birds.

"We haven't seen human cases out of these investigations so far," Thompson said, adding the top UN health agency would keep up surveillance because it was still possible that human infection could occur.

"There is really no time frame. As long as the virus is circulating it could jump into humans," he said.

Bird flu has been detected in more than 30 countries and territories since 2003 and 170 people are known to have been infected by the virus, of which 92 died, according to the WHO.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060221...ml9DEOGOrgF;_ylu=X3oDMTA2ZGZwam4yBHNlYwNmYw--
 
Re: WHO sees continuing human risk from bird flu

That is a very interesting WHO video

Finally a we see highlighted the unseen heroes working on our behalf. Also noted here is that the WHO Global Alert & Response effort has linked "hundreds of people around the world" deployed "expert teams" and "mobilized hundreds of others around the world." We too often forget these "dedicated people working unbelieveable hours" and it is nice to see that this short video acknowleges them.
 
Re: WHO sees continuing human risk from bird flu

I think that we all have to measure our expectations of WHO too - they cannot be everywhere at once, and there are now numerous 'hot-spots'. Indonesia, India (a vast continent), Africa (which many countries have little infrastructure and a belief that BF cannot affect them personally) not to mention the rest of Asia and now Europe. I think this repositioning is in line with new expectations i.e all they can do now is alert and assist in response, the language of containment and eradication seems to have softened.

This says to me that they think that the first battle has been lost: now it is about delay and mitigation.
 
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