Brazil: Brazil monitors suspected A/H1N1 flu cases among Indians. Excerpt:
A medical team was sent to monitor suspected cases of A/H1N1 flu in an indigenous region in Brazil's Amazonas state, it is reported.
The decision was made after a 10-year-old Indian boy from a village of the Yanomami ethnic group in the Santa Isabel do Rio Negro region had to be hospitalized with serious flu symptoms.
The National Health Foundation also reported two other flu cases in the same village.
Sizinando Pontes, an official from the Indigenous Health District, said local residents were concerned about an outbreak ofA/H1N1 flu in the region.
January 08, 2010 at 10:48 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)
India: B2B H5N1 in Assam?
Via Vamban.com: Bird Flu Scare in Kaziranga, Birds Found Dead. Excerpt:
A bird flu scare has hit the Kaziranga National Park in Assam with carcasses of at least a dozen migratory Bar-headed Geese found in the sanctuary, officials said Friday.
A park warden said at least seven geese were found dead Friday. Five carcasses of the same species that had recently arrived at the sanctuary from Siberia were recovered Thursday.
‘A team of experts, including veterinarians, are carrying out post-mortem of the birds and samples would be sent to Bhopal to find out if the deaths were due to avian influenza or some other disease,’ a park ranger told IANS.
‘We are worried as other birds and animals might be hit if avian influenza spreads in the park. We have issued an alert asking forest guards to look out for dead birds or animals,’ an official said.
Bar-headed geese were major casualties in the Qinghai Lake H5N1 outbreak in China back in 2006. So the Indian authorities are right to be worried about these deaths.
January 08, 2010 at 10:17 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)
January 06, 2010
Pakistan: 14 deaths
Via the Daily Times: 14 deaths from swine flu reported so far. Excerpt:
Some 14 deaths from swine flu (H1N1) have been reported so far throughout the country, said National Institute of Health (NIH) Executive Director Dr Bargees Mazhar Qazi on Wednesday.
Briefing media persons on current swine flu situation, the ED said of the total 650 suspected cases, 168 were reported H1N1 positive.
He said of 168 positive cases, 63 were reported from Islamabad, 59 from Punjab, 15 from NWFP, 28 from Sindh, two from AJK and one from Afghanistan also got treatment in the country.
This is my first chance to post from Quebec, and I'm not sure I'll be able to post again before getting home to Vancouver. Thanks for the comments you've posted.
January 06, 2010 at 05:31 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)
January 04, 2010
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