Posted on 03/10/2005 2:19:20 PM PST by nickcarraway
Hanoi (AsiaNews/Agencies) – The avian or bird flu might strike without patients showing any symptoms—the disease might therefore be more widespread than thought before.
Today Vietnamese health authorities have released information about two such cases. Nguyen Tran Hien, director of the National Institute for Hygiene and Epidemiology, confirmed that lab tests showed that a 61-year-old woman from northern Thai Binh province had contracted the H5N1 virus but was not showing any symptoms.
The woman’s husband died on February 23 from the bird flu but thus far she has not shown any of the disease’s typical symptoms such as respiratory problems and high fever. She remains in good health but has been placed in isolation.
Nguyen Van Thieu, director of the Kien Xuong District Medical Centre in Thai Binh, explained that the “source of infection is still unclear”. The woman’s family raised chickens but none was infected.
Tests conducted at the National Institute for Hygiene and Epidemiology in Hanoi showed that an 80-year-old man had also contracted the virus but he, too, had not fallen ill. By contrast, his 21-year-old grandson and his 14-year-old granddaughter had been hospitalised earlier in Hanoi with the bird flu.
Health officials suspect the three, who are also from Thai Binh province, might have become infected eating an infected duck a month ago.
So far there is no evidence of person-to-person contagion. However, the two latest cases are raising fears that the bird flu might be more widespread than thought before.
“It's quite possible that some people are falling sick and their symptoms are very light and they don't end up in hospital,” Peter Cordingley, regional spokesman for the World Health Organisation, said earlier this week.
Since 2003 the bird flu has killed 46 people in South-East Asia: 33 in Vietnam, 12 in Thailand and 1 in Cambodia. It has also forced the authorities to cull millions of birds.
When people get the same strain of flu, we don't kill them. We make people attend to them. Invariably some caregivers get the disease and pass it on. This happened with SARS in Canada. Is it people over animal rights that sets the different disease control strategy?
If we left the ducks alone would they not die and kill each other? Wouldn't the disease then run out of natural hosts? Then, wouldn't the chances of flu strains jumping species drop?
I have a favor to ask of you. Could you call George Noory on Coast to Coast tonight, 800-825-5033. Paranoid talk helps put me to sleep.
Me thinks, clearsight, you have been reading and believing too much of Leonard Horowitz.
As for me, I avoid vaccines. Makes for a naturally stronger immune system. And much less susceptible to the side effects of vaccines.
What is his agenda? "pray tell" and inform us with your superior knowledge and intellect.
So the battle plan is to release a virus against the enemy humans that is resistant to all human treatment which given the level of human knowledge would most certainly not be 100 percent containable by humans.
Are you suggesting the government is run by extraterretial beings leading us to exterminate ourselves?
I would like to hear more about this on Coast to Coast. Perhaps we can get Dr. Len Horowitz on for an interview.
Wait! Be right back. I'll check to see if he has already been on the show ....
Ah! Yes. He has already been on. I must have fell asleep.
COAST TO COAST AM WITH GEORGE NOORY: SHOWS... Guests. Howard Bloom, Dr. Leonard Horowitz ... Thursday's first hour guest Dr. Len Horowitz (sarsscam.com) commented on what's being called the next flu ... www.coasttocoastam.com/shows/2003/12/04.html
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