Monday, January 09, 2006

Turkey Now Has 15 Human Cases of Bird Flu

quote[Preliminary tests showed five more people in Turkey have been infected with the deadly strain of bird flu that already killed two teenage siblings, officials said Monday as Indonesia and China each reported a new case.

The new results raise the number of human cases in Turkey to 15, although most have not yet been confirmed by the World Health Organization.

However, a WHO official said Turkish patients appear to be catching the disease from infected domestic birds, the normal path of the disease, and not from each other.

But he warned that the chance that bird flu may mutate into a dangerous form transmitted from person to person increases with every new human infection.]


Time to stick with vegi-burgers?

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