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 | Bangladesh reports first human case of bird flu [ external link ]
Posted: 6/3/2008
DHAKA (AFP) - Bangladesh reported its first confirmed case of human bird flu on Thursday, but said the 16-month-old victim had now recovered from the virus.
The baby boy from a Dhaka slum was diagnosed with the H5N1 strain of the disease in January, but this was only confirmed by a US laboratory this week, the government said.
"There is no reason to panic. The child contracted the H5N1 bird flu virus in January but we only got confirmation from the CDC (US Centers for Disease Control) on Wednesday it was a human bird flu case," said senior government official Saluddin Khan.
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|  | | WHO at odds with Indonesia over bird flu [ external link ]
Posted: 5/22/2008
A dispute over sharing samples of bird flu virus between Indonesia and the U.N. World Health Organization (WHO) is jeopardizing efforts to prevent a global influenza pandemic and putting lives at risk, international health officials warn more »
| | | UN warns new lethal bird flu strain may emerge in Indonesia [ external link ]
Posted: 5/22/2008
A United Nations agency said on Tuesday the bird flu virus, common in Indonesia, could mutate into a form that could easily be transmitted from person to person, causing a global panic. more »
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