I’ve updated the H5N1 clusters page?, with some prompting from Racter ;-)
Its not complete. The WHO really does a lousy job of reporting their cases. The cases from Vietnam are especially bad. I’m still trying to figure out basic things like ages and provinces for many of the cases there. The Turkish cases are still being analysed, but already they seem committed to providing as little information as possible. They must know more than they have reported.
In any case, if anyone is aware of any other clusters, please comment here. Or feel free to add to the page directly. But please, no speculative or uncertain cases on the Wiki page itself.
Probably about as close as it’s going to get for now.
I noticed that too. It’s a shame, because things are complicated enough as it is; this aspect of it should be a matter of simple record-keeping. I’m usually not inclined to indulge conspiracy theories, but I think I’ll keep an open mind on this one for now; there are some rather compelling arguments being made for a cover-up by the WHO. I suspect it’s more CYA if anything. At this point, I’d prefer that to it being just a case of them being sloppy. Or stupid. Or slackers.
nice work Monotreme on the clusters page. That’s the kind of tracking of events that should be done.
thanks.
Thanks Racter and Keith.
I plan to create a table with all the cases listed individually with as much information for each case as possible.
The WHO has made it difficult, either deliberately or through incompetence, to sort out who was infected when and what their relationships were. I also think they have more complete information on the epidemiology than they are releasing. We can speculate on the motive, but whatever it is, I don’t think its honorable.
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