MaMa — 06 December 2006, 00:56
Here is the link for the other site as well, which includes the Summary for Dec 5
News For December 6
7 kids dead hospital sleeps Hyderabad India Dec 6
7 children died within 24 hours.
Meet Ishwaramma- and inconsolable mother, her 5 day old daughter died from respiratory trouble on Tuesday evening. There was nose bleeding then the doctors told me to wait outside.
Bird flu virus ‘still smoldering,’ U.S. expert says
A year ago, headlines were screaming about a looming disaster: the rapid spread of bird flu across two-thirds of the globe. The
H5N1 strain of the virus was killing more than half its human victims. Experts were urging the government to stockpile medicine and experimental vaccines.
Dr. Robert Webster, whose vaccine the U.S. government plans to use in case of an outbreak, told CNN at the time, “If this virus learns to transmit human to human and maintains that level of killing, we’ve got a global catastrophe.”
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Last week South Korea announced two new outbreaks in poultry. And Dr. Timothy Uyeki of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said he’s bracing for another surge in human infections. “When the temperature drops and the humidity drops, that’s when you start seeing more poultry outbreaks. And when you see poultry outbreaks, that’s when you see human cases.”
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It’s been a really rare human disease to date,” Uyeki cautions, but “who can predict what’s going to happen? We better continue to monitor and plan. To ignore this would be insane.”
On the web here
MaMa — 07 December 2006, 10:10