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DISCUSSION: How Will Vaccine Be Used Against Pandemic Influenza?

COMMENT: Recent upswing in cases with no exposure to birds


Submitted by Katharine Fisher on 12/6/07 5:23 PM

Sharon, that was once true. But maybe you want to review the WHO confirmed cases as noted in the WHO "situation updates" on avian influenza. If you read carefully, you'll see that there are many cases in Indonesia that have occurred in recent months that indicate no bird contact. (And they look long and hard for bird contact).

China's news of a new H5N1 fatality just the other day was accompanied by a very unusual (for them) pithy statement that the victim had had no bird contact.

We need to be sure that the data we are using is the most current data.



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Submitted by Roy Kamen on 12/4/07 05:55 AM