Turkish girl dies from suspected bird flu

Reuters ^ | Jan 15, 2006 | Enis Durak

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A Turkish girl died on Sunday from suspected bird flu, while her brother was critically ill in hospital after testing positive for the virus.

Although the Health Ministry said initial tests on 12-year-old Fatma Ozcan proved negative, doctors still suspect she contracted the deadly disease.

If both siblings are confirmed to have bird flu, it would bring the number of human cases in Turkey to 20.

The ministry said tests on her brother Muhammet, 5, showed he has the H5N1 strain of avian influenza, which has already killed three other children in Dogubayazit, the same town in eastern Van province that the Ozcan family come from.

The H5N1 virus has been found in wild birds and poultry across large parts of Turkey, particularly in poor villages stretching from Istanbul at the gates of Europe to Van near the Iranian and Iraqi borders.

"The girl who was under treatment in Van, Fatma Ozcan, died today of lung failure. She couldn't be saved," the Health Ministry said in a statement.

" Separately, Van university hospital doctor Huseyin Avni Sahin told reporters: "Fatma Ozcan died today from suspected avian influenza, she came from Dogubayazit five days ago."

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And so it continues.

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[samtheman]

Turkish bird flu.

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Bird flu *apparently* kills again ping

[skinkinthegrass]

..was this Turkish Girl, who kissed the bird on its' beak?

[txhurl]

All these sibling deaths - bad news. Human-to-human jump in Turkey?

[FARS]

Slight edit to your pun - Turkey bird flu. Then again "bird flu" by itself provides a pun. Humor is sadistic but also a good way to handle fear and tragedy.

[DrGunsforHands]

All the deaths have been from members of two extended families that live near each other. This could mean that they all ate the same infected food/breathed the same air/touched the same infected surfaces, or it could mean that it's become transmissable between humans.

[Petronski]

Had it been a boy, the Mullahs would be greatly saddened.

[gondramB]

"We should be shooting all migratory birds without limit--emmediately."


I suspect the absence of migratory birds would have a negative impact on the ecosystem.

[Mrs. Shawnlaw]

We should be shooting all migratory birds

It sure beats having personal property/livestock confiscated, killed, burned, buried w/o reason or further testing.

[gondramB]

"It sure beats having personal property/livestock confiscated, killed, burned, buried w/o reason or further testing."

Good point.

Let's hope it doesnt come to a choice between killing all the wild birds and killing all the domestics ones.

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Not that I know of, she had been handling chicken to eat for dinner.

[txhurl]

they all ate the same infected food/breathed the same air/touched the same infected surfaces, or it could mean that it's become transmissable between humans.

40:60 probabilities.

[blam]

"All the deaths have been from members of two extended families that live near each other. This could mean that they all ate the same infected food/breathed the same air/touched the same infected surfaces, or it could mean that it's become transmissable between humans."

I think the oldest to have died is the 12 year old girl. I know it is common practice for the children to do the killing and cleaning of the chicken before cooking. But still no adults affected?

Bird Flu May Over-Stimulate Immune Response System

[samtheman]

you are correct

[skinkinthegrass]

Not that I know of, she had been handling chicken to eat for dinner.

..there was a report, of a (Turkish?) girl kissing a bird on its' beak...on a P.C. crawl (not CAW :) line.

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15-year-old Fatma Kocyigit was oldest to have died so far

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"15-year-old Fatma Kocyigit was oldest to have died so far.

Okay. Still a youngster with a strong immune system.

[Dichroic]

"15-year-old Fatma Kocyigit was oldest to have died so far.>>> Okay. Still a youngster with a strong immune system.>>>>

Guess the kids do all the dirty work cleaning and plucking the chickens and that accounts for the strange anomaly of only dead young people so far.