Bird flu case detected in Cambodia

(Lots of news this morning folks.)
Phnom Penh – Cambodian health workers converged on a town near the capital Phnom Penh after a man was diagnosed with avian flu, officials said Friday.
The 19-year-old man from Kandal Province fell ill on November 28 and was being treated in a Phnom Penh hospital, the Ministry of Health and [...]

300,000 people in bird flu-hit Assam under surveillance

Health authorities in Assam have placed under surveillance about 300,000 people in bird flu affected areas with reports of some 150 people suffering from fever and upper respiratory infections, fuelling fears of the deadly virus spreading to humans, officials said Friday.
‘Isolation facilities have been strengthened to admit and treat suspect cases although no cases of [...]

Shenzhen bird flu found

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Shenzhen bird flu found
 2008-12-12  Ocean News: 2008-12-12 Source: Guangzhou Daily
 Shenzhen newspaper (Reporter Wang Liao its correspondent in Namibia) yesterday, the Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Bureau of Shenzhen City announced that, after the city within the scope of inspection, Shenzhen poultry found infected with bird flu.
H5N1  It is understood that since the Hong Kong Special [...]

Hong Kong: Vigilance urged over return of H5N1

Adele Wong
Friday, December 12, 2008
The avian flu virus found in a Yuen Long chicken farm is the deadly H5N1 strain, the government has confirmed.
Secretary for Food and Health York Chow Yat-ngok also said it may not be a coincidence that the two recent H5N1 outbreaks in the territory occurred just before traditional celebrations.
Chow urged those [...]

Sixty URI Patients In Barpeta India Raise H5N1 Concerns

 December 11, 2008
In Barpeta District, out of the total population of 33,934 in the 0-3 km radius area from the affected area, a population of 6,032 have been surveyed
So far, 60 cases of fever with URI have been detected in the 0-3 km radius area.
The above comments describe excessive upper respiratory infections with fever [...]

H5N1 Spread To Rangpur Bangladesh

December 11, 2008
Fresh outbreak of poultry AI was confirmed on 2 December 2008 in northern district of Rangpur. On 28 November 2008, farmers reported unusual poultry mortality to the District Veterinary Officer.
The above comments are from a WHO situation update for Bangladesh.  Although the update did not yet have the sub-type, the unusual mortality, positive [...]

India: 82 cases of respiratory illness in bf area

Dec. 11: Dispur today sounded a grim warning over the probable spread of avian influenza to humans, saying the state was not equipped to handle such a health scenario.
 
The alert came in the wake of 82 cases of upper respiratory track infections in humans that were reported from six districts affected by bird flu. However, [...]

India: BF could spread to humans, warns health minister

The Assam health department Thursday expressed serious fears about strains of the deadly bird flu virus spreading to humans and sparking a pandemic in the northeastern state. ‘We are really worried about the bird flu virus spreading to humans as the strains transmit rapidly. We don’t know for sure if at all our health department [...]

Koreans Warned of Asian Bird Flu Wave

Dec.11,2008 – The Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Wednesday warned of bird flu spreading in some Asian countries including Hong Kong, and advised tourists leaving for these countries to take extra caution.
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Patients came down with avian influenza in Vietnam on Oct. 30, in Laos on Nov. 8, in Thailand on Nov. 10, [...]

Bird flu wreaks havoc in Assam, spreads to new areas

GUWAHATI: The deadly bird flu virus is spreading to new areas in the northeastern state of Assam although over 200,000 poultry have been culled in the past two weeks, officials said on Thursday.
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“It is a matter of worry with the virus now spreading to new areas and hence a maximum health alert has been sounded. [...]