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To: Ditchdigger who wrote (14278)	1/8/2006 1:09:34 PM
From: Sergio H	Respond to of 23958

I enjoyed putting it together Ditch. Apologies for anything I ommitted. I'll post a few more months now and will finish out the rest of the year in the next few weeks.

To: Ditchdigger who wrote (14278)	1/9/2006 5:28:00 AM
From: Galirayo	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 23958

Turkey Reports Five More Bird Flu Cases, Disease Spreads West Jan. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Five more people have tested positive for the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu in Turkey, Agence France-Presse reported, citing comments by a health ministry official to the Anatolia news agency. This brings the total number of bird flu cases detected in humans in Turkey to 14, including two deaths, AFP said. A third person is thought to have died from bird flu, though tests haven't confirmed it was the H5N1 strain. Another 45 have been hospitalized with flu symptoms, Fehmi Aydinli, deputy chief of planning and health care at the health ministry, said yesterday. An adult and two children tested positive yesterday and were hospitalized in Ankara, Turkey's capital, marking the virus's progress toward the West of the country and closer to Europe. Human infection increases the risk that the virus will mutate into a form that people can pass to one another, causing a deadly pandemic. The World Health Organization and the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control sent experts to Turkey last week to help assess the situation and stem the outbreak. ``It seems that the epidemic has been spreading among animals in Turkey for much longer than believed,' Klaus Stoehr, who heads the WHO's global influenza program, told German radio, according to AFP. The virus has also infected people in Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Thailand and Vietnam, killing at least 74 since 2003, according to the WHO. At least 144 people have been infected, according to the agency's Web site. Travel Warnings The infections there came from direct contact with sick birds, as did the recent ones in Turkey, experts say. The clustering of cases in eastern Turkey, though, has raised concerns that the H5N1 virus may have undergone genetic mutations that would allow it to spread from person to person. The cases in Turkey are the top bird flu concern at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Scott Dowell, the Atlanta-based agency's head of global disease detection, said yesterday. Scientists at a WHO-affiliated laboratory in London are still working to confirm that the third death in Turkey, of an 11-year-old girl, was caused by the H5N1 bird virus. The virus is in the H5 family, and genetic tests to confirm it also carries the N1 protein will take more time. Italy may ban trips to Turkey and other countries ``at risk' of bird flu to help avert the spread of the disease, Health Minister Francesco Storace said today in an interview with la Repubblica newspaper. The Russian government has advised its citizens against traveling to Turkey, and Iran isn't letting its citizens travel via a border gate near the Turkish region of Dogubeyazit, where the virus was found in dead birds last month, Turkey's NTV news channel said. To contact the reporter on this story: Etain Lavelle in London at at elavelle1@bloomberg.net. Last Updated: January 9, 2006 04:50 EST bloomberg.com 450 Hits Today ... So Far. news.search.yahoo.com High pathogenic type H5N1 confirmed in Turkish poultry BRUSSELS, 01/08 - The European Commission (EC) announced on Saturday that the bird flu outbreak in eastern Turkey has been proven to be high pathogenic type H5N1.