January 04, 2006

Two Human Cases of Bird Flu in Turkey

Turkey said on Wednesday two people had been diagnosed with bird flu — the first human cases outside Southeast Asia and China — and a doctor said one of them, a 14-year-old boy, had died from the killer H5N1 strain.

A senior World Health Organization official said the boy had probably died from H5N1, which would mark a dramatic shift westwards for the deadly disease, but Turkish Health Minister Recep Akdag gave no specific details and said samples had been sent to the WHO and Britain for more tests. (MSNBC)

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