Forum: Summary of News for Aug 12

Summary of News for 12 August 2006

(Cumulative human cases are the figures from WHO, plus new in Indonesia today)

Indonesia

• Teenager positive for H5N1 (link http://tinyurl.com/kvuxz)
  • Same teenager that refused treatment at hospital (link http://tinyurl.com/pldsc )
• Chickens die near Karo, and
• Depok has chickens test positive
  • (Both stories via translation, see News thread posts at 9:18 and 10:03)
  Cumulative human cases 57, deaths 44 (2006 – 40 with 33 deaths)

Thailand

• Surveillance data for H5N1 in humans (link http://tinyurl.com/zrptw )
• BF assessment more difficult because of other illnesses (link http://tinyurl.com/k6j8e)
  Cumulative human cases 24, deaths 16 (2006 – 2 with 2 deaths)

Vietnam

• No updates today
  Cumulative human cases 93, deaths 42 (2006 – no cases)

China

• Traditional Chinese medicine helps BF recovery (link http://tinyurl.com/r2dts )
  Cumulative human cases 20, deaths 13 (2006 – 11 with 7 deaths)

Cambodia

• New outbreak in Southeast (1st reported 11 Aug) (link http://tinyurl.com/gyjwv)
  Cumulative human cases 6, deaths 6 (2006 – 2 with 2 deaths)

Laos

• Thailand, Laos talk on bird flu (reported 11 Aug) (link http://tinyurl.com/zddym )

India

• India declares itself Bird Flu free (link http://tinyurl.com/lx6au )

Netherlands

• H5N1 suspected in Rotterdam zoo (link http://tinyurl.com/molfh )

Bulgaria

• Hunting season opens with bird flu in mind (link http://tinyurl.com/hc4yy )

Iran

• Academic centre raises bird flu warning status (link http://tinyurl.com/g6r8a)

General

• Human H5N1 evolving away from poultry (link http://tinyurl.com/ksbfp)
• Announcement about investment into vaccine development that targets clade 2 (http://tinyurl.com/q923r)

Total human cases worldwide 237, deaths 138 (2006 – 92 with 61 deaths)

Link to previous News Summaries:

• Summary for Aug 10 (link Summary for Aug 10 )
• Summary for Aug 11 (link Summary for Aug 11 )

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

I tried again to copy pmwiki markups but I ended up with the original link in the document so created tinyURLs for them. You are welcome to search the News thread for 12 Aug to find the pmwiki markups if you prefer these.

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this is spectacular. Well done, you.

Bravo - VERY good summary!

Thanks!

Thank you AnnieB!

Quartz,

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