Bird flu claims 3-year-old girl
Fri 7 Jul 2006
A THREE-year-old Indonesian girl has died from bird flu, a senior health ministry official said.
If confirmed, it will take the country's death toll from the virus to 41, trailing only Vietnam, where 42 people have died.
Health ministry official Nyoman Kandun said the latest victim, identified only as AA, died in Cisauk village south-west of Jakarta.
"Local tests showed she was positively infected with the H5N1 strain of the virus," he said.
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Fri. July 07, 2006 11:18 am.
Hajarah Kizza
(SomaliNet) Nigeria has three strains of bird flu. Nigeria is said to have played first time host to these strains at different times. These are results from researchers studying bird flu in Nigeria.
These strains, it has been revealed, were imported into Nigeria from Russia, Egypt and Mongolia. Nigeria was the first African host of bird flu. It stemmed from migratory birds and unauthorized sale of birds in Nigeria.
"This reinforces that not only is there a natural distribution of the H5N1 virus through migratory birds, there's another, intercontinental human distribution system via trade," said Dr. William Schaffner, an infection-control doctor at a Nigeria University.
However, scientists disagree about whether the trade in poultry had something to do with the calamity in Nigeria. However, they all agree that the different paths that the virus used to arrive in Nigeria are complicating the prevention of its spread amongst Nigeria’s poultry.
The virus in Nigeria was first detected in February.