Forum: Summary of News for Aug 11

Summary of News for 11 August 2006

(Cumulative human cases are the figures from WHO)

Indonesia

• Suspected bird flu patient insists on leaving hospital
  • (Article put through translation, see Post, 15:24 in News Report Aug 11)
  Cumulative human cases 56, deaths 44 (2006 – 39 with 33 deaths)

Thailand

• Govt braces for outbreak in capital (link http://tinyurl.com/kqxnu )
• Dead man’s body to be tested for H5N1 (link http://tinyurl.com/r9loz )
• Thailand can control the spread of bird flu (link http://tinyurl.com/nl9sz )
• Volunteers to monitor bird flu in Bangkok (link http://tinyurl.com/p6n67 )
• Ministry bans selling aspirin to treat children (link http://tinyurl.com/nll4u )
  Cumulative human cases 24, deaths 16 (2006 – 2 with 2 deaths)

Vietnam

• Further reports of outbreak – first reported 10 Aug (see summary)
  Cumulative human cases 93, deaths 42 (2006 – no cases)

China

• End of epidemic in Zhongwei (article in French – see post 15:38 Aug 11)
  Cumulative human cases 20, deaths 13 (2006 – 11 with 7 deaths)

Cambodia

• New outbreak in Southeast (link http://tinyurl.com/fhzmr )
  Cumulative human cases 6, deaths 6 (2006 – 2 with 2 deaths)

Laos

• Thailand, Laos talk on bird flu (link http://tinyurl.com/zddym )

India

• Waiting to be declared bird flu free (link http://tinyurl.com/g44ud )

Bulgaria

• Ended 21 day quarantine for fowl exports (link http://tinyurl.com/zkuwv )

United States of America

• Orange County tells schools to prepare (link http://tinyurl.com/k7gh7 )

General

• Drug promises to beat resistance problems (link http://tinyurl.com/htk2v )

Total human cases worldwide 236, deaths 138 (2006 – 91 with 61 deaths)

Link to previous News Summaries:

• Summary for Aug 10 Summary for Aug 10

(Usual disclaimer about may not have captured everything. Feel free to add your own where omissions have occurred.)

AnnieB – at 06:37

Thanks for the Summary AnnieB, Very helpful

Annie B-

I enjoy the summary. Please see Reuters link and hopefully it might help you some. Thanks. http://tinyurl.com/lyf5p

Thanks Leo7.

I obtain data for the summary from the news items posted here during the day, plus any others I happen to see as I am pulling it all together.

Thanks for the news summary. You are doing a wonderful service. I really enjoy the news links in the summaries. It saves me lots of work. I put them (the links and countries and numbers) in a spread sheet (I can do that with Tiny’s) so I can keep running tabs over weeks of info.

Right now I guess I am a bit worried about the “527 suspect cases” in Thailand that are waiting test results. http://tinyurl.com/zrptw

Thanks again.

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