Bangladesh: Bird Flu Spreads To 47th District
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Seventy days ago, on the 1st of January, Bangladesh was reporting that the H5N1 virus had been detected in only 20 districts. Since then, that number has more than doubled, with 27 new districts added to the list.
Bird flu strikes new Bangladesh district
Sun 9 Mar 2008, 12:50 GMT
DHAKA, March 9 (Reuters) - Bird flu has spread to another district in Bangladesh despite massive culling by authorities to control the outbreak, officials said on Sunday, bringing the number of affected districts to 47 out of 64.
The new case of the avian influenza was found in Brahmanbaria, in the east of the capital Dhaka, livestock officials said. They added that the spread of bird flu had slowed in the previously affected areas in recent weeks.
Nearly 1.25 million birds have been culled since the virus was first detected in March 2007, threatening the impoverished country's growing poultry sector.
Industry officials said bird flu had caused losses of about 45 billion taka ($650 million) to the poultry sector, which accounts for 1.6 percent of gross domestic product.
posted by FLA_MEDIC @ 9:16 AM
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Doc,
Read and article the other day that we are two mutations away. What are your thoughts on HONG KONG as the development point for Human to Human?
Also, is Crof Ok? Have not seen any blogs for a while?
Trapper
Doc.
I now Grok it. Maybe not to it's fullest, but to the point that I can now see clearly what can possibly happen. I will follow up with my thoughts, which have now taken on a crystalline identity as to what I believe is going to happen. However, with that being said I Grok that it is not going to make any difference what we do or say. The US, as usual, will be in reactionary mode, which in the case of H5N1 is going to be to late. As you know the ramifications are going to change, hopefully not, the dynamics of life as we know it. Strong words, however, the potential is at our back door. Do you agree, or not?
Trapper
Trapper
Trapper,
With the H5N1 virus so well entrenched across dozens of nations, it's hard to pick one area over another for where H2H could break out.
Hong Kong is certainly a possibility, and with its population density and international travel, a bad place for it to happen.
I seriously doubt that any nation could properly prepare for a severe pandemic . . . there are just too many variables. I'm seeing some progress, but we've a long way to go.
A severe pandemic would certainly change life as we know it radically. I do believe, however, that we would learn to cope and hopefully rise to the occasion.
Crof, btw, is fine and probably blogs more than I do.
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