Re: Possible Human-to-Human Bird Flu in Indonesia

bob@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
http://www.cnn.com/2006/HEALTH/conditions/05/13/indonesia.birdflu.reut/

Local tests have confirmed that three Indonesians from one family who died
in the past week had bird flu, a health ministry official said on Saturday.

Authorities have sent blood and swab samples of the three people -- a
29-year-old woman, a 19-year-old man and a 35-year-old man -- to a World
Health Organization-affiliated laboratory in Hong Kong. Local tests are not
considered definitive.

A toddler and a 25-year-old man from the same North Sumatra family were also
found positive for bird flu, although they are still alive, Nyoman Kandun, a
director general at the Indonesian health ministry, told Reuters.

Uh-oh.

"Local tests found five positive cases. They are all related by blood and
they live close to each other," said Kandun.

He did not say whether they had had any contact with sick fowl, the usual
mode of transmission of the virus to humans.

Usually, these folks are quick to report an association with sick birds
when there is an association.

WHO has confirmed 25 fatalities from avian influenza in the world's fourth
most populous nation so far, the second highest number of human deaths after
Vietnam, out of the total death toll of 115 globally.

The virus has spread in birds at an alarming rate in recent months, sweeping
through parts of Europe, down into Africa and across into South Asia.

It is difficult for humans to catch, but experts fear the virus could evolve
into a form passed easily from human to human, causing a pandemic that could
kill millions.

Actually, the correct term is mutate instead of "evolve," since viruses
are non-living and without speciation.

In Indonesia, the H5N1 virus has been reported in birds in about two-thirds
of the country's provinces.

For this reason, the H5N1 virus has plenty of opportunity to mutate per
GOD's infinite will.

This is dire news for the world as we know it.

Prayerfully in Christ's amazing love,

Andrew
http://tinyurl.com/mpuzr

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