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  • Parrot Worker Left Untreated For Days (H5N1 Flu UK)

    11/12/2005 5:17:55 PM PST · by blam · 15 replies · 782+ views
    The Telegraph (UK) ^ | 11-13-2005 | Philip Edwards
    Parrot worker left untreated for days By Philip Edwards (Filed: 13/11/2005) Crucial treatment for a hospital worker exposed to Britain's first case of deadly bird flu through his other job as a quarantine worker was delayed by at least three days because of a blunder by government officials, the Sunday Telegraph has learnt. Officials at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs are understood to have risked an outbreak of the disease by failing to alert local health authorities that Howard Savage urgently needed antiviral treatment. Mr Savage, who runs the quarantine centre where two infected parrots died, approached...