News Reports for May 7, 2012

Dominican Republic: H1N1 virus confirmed the presence in the Dominican

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SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic, May 7 (UPI) - The H1N1 flu virus is present in the Dominican, as confirmed by the Health Minister (Snip) the epidemiological surveillance system remains on alert and taking preventive measures against disease outbreaks after the rains.

He said that pregnant women can go to hospitals and vaccination centers to get free vaccine against the H1N1 virus and said that the portfolio has enough doses to immunize.

"Health personnel are on alert to monitor cases of fever and diarrhea that come to hospitals, and working directly with communities in the most affected by the rains, and already we prepare to conclude the rains immediately initiate action vector control," (Snip) http://espanol.upi.com/Noticia...

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by: Carol@SC @ Mon May 07, 2012 at 12:55:56 PM UTC

Mexico: Recorded strange flu outbreak in the prison of Cozumel

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COZUMEL, Quintana Roo - Of the 81 local jail inmates 15 have flu for two days, prisoners are being held in module two, said the prison director, Macedonian Várguez Gongora, who described the situation as an outbreak of atypical disease.

Inmates may be segregated from the rest of the population to prevent the disease from spreading to other inmates or visitors. Inmates will be transported in groups of four to the clinic the health center for medical care. The county jail has medical office area, but lacks a medical examiner cases that meets for eight months.

Várguez Gongora said on Friday found that some inmates of area two, a space that is inhabited by 30 inmates, had symptoms of flu, a situation that has grown up to 15 cases.

The presence of the disease is classified as atypical, because there have been no extreme changes in temperature, although it is possible that has been infected by a visitor.

Prisoners have the following signs: elevated body temperature, runny nose and body aches. Continued: http://sipse.com/noticias/1561...

(Note: This sounds like an outbreak of H3N2, B or H1N1 swine flu and no red flags go up in my mind that it's anything atypical. JMO)

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. --Unknown

     

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by: Carol@SC @ Mon May 07, 2012 at 13:07:47 PM UTC

Dead bird tests positive for H5N1 virus in Hong Kong

HONG KONG, May 7 (Xinhua) -- A carcass of a crested myna found on April 27 in Hong Kong was confirmed to be H5N1-positive (Snip) the city's Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department (AFCD) said here Monday.

The dead crested myna, which is a common resident bird in Hong Kong, was found (Snip) near Santa Monica Avenue, Royal Palms, Yuen Long.

The AFCD will continue to conduct inspections of poultry farms (Snip) http://news.xinhuanet.com/engl...  

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. --Unknown

     

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by: Carol@SC @ Mon May 07, 2012 at 13:26:31 PM UTC

Bangladesh: Bird flu affects Bangladesh DOC production

The avian influenza outbreaks in Bangladesh at the end of 2011 have taken their toll on the domestic agriculture sector. As well as poultry farms, the disease ravaged a number of breeding farms and thus production of day-old chicks (DOC) of both broilers and layers slumped this year.

Average production of broiler DOC, which is used for meat production, fell to 5,000,000 a week in 2012 from nearly 9,000,000 per week last year. Production of layer DOC for egg production also nosedived, said Shamsul Arefin Khaled, director of Nourish Feeds Ltd.

"The demand for feeds depends on both supply and demand for the one-day-old chicks. The higher the production of chicks, the higher the demand for feed," said Khaled of Nourish which is also engaged in poultry breeding. Continued: http://www.worldpoultry.net/ne...

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. --Unknown

     

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by: Carol@SC @ Mon May 07, 2012 at 13:29:18 PM UTC

Flu cases on the rise

SINGAPORE: The number of flu cases has gone up over warning levels of 2,824 patients per day. Over the past three weeks, polyclinics have been seeing almost 2,900 patients every day. This is a seven per cent increase in the infection rate as compared to the same period last year.

The overall influenza situation in Singapore in the past month has seen more than six in 10 cases belonging to Type B influenza when previously most cases were of Type A strain.

Private clinics are also seeing more flu patients. At Healthway Tampines Clinic, the number of patients has gone up by 20 per cent over the past month and most of them are due to the flu. Continued: http://www.channelnewsasia.com...

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. --Unknown

     

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by: Carol@SC @ Mon May 07, 2012 at 20:50:36 PM UTC

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