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Bird Flu cases in Indonesia and Japan
Avian flu is any flu caused by a virus adapted to birds. It is also called bird flu, avian influenza and bird influenza...


Distribution Source : Finegenerics
Date : Thursday, April 13, 2006

Avian flu is any flu caused by a virus adapted to birds. It is also called bird flu, avian influenza and bird influenza.

WHO has confirmed Indonesia's 33rd case of bird flu in a 23-year-old poultry worker. The patient is being treated and results arrived from the WHO-affiliated Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which confirmed previous local tests.

Worker had been in contact with ill chickens at his work place in the Bekasi suburb. Local tests for the virus, which are usually correct, are regularly sent to WHO-affiliated laboratories in Hong Kong for confirmation.

In Japan's northernmost, Hundreds of sparrows have been found dead on Main Island since the start of the year, but the reason of death, while undetermined, seems unlikely to be bird flu, a local official said.

Around 600 sparrows have been found dead in Hokkaido this year, said local government official Atsuyoshi Obata, adding that the deaths came to light through dozens of reports from local residents.

Obata said avian flu was unlikely to be behind the strange deaths, which have been limited so far to sparrows. Few Peoples have reported seeing crows eating dead sparrows, but there have been no reports of mass deaths of crows.

In 2004, Japan had four outbreaks of the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu in poultry between January and March, including one in Kyoto in western Japan in February 2004 that led to the disposal of about 240,000 chickens and 20 million eggs.

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