# 437
Bird Flu jitters abound in Turkey after the discovery of infected poultry in three villages in the Batman province of that country. Earlier today 4 children were cleared of having contracted the disease, while three more people were admitted with high fevers, suspected of having bird flu.
Three hospitalized in Turkey over bird flu scare
Posted: 11 February 2007 0436 hrs
ANKARA - Two women and a three year-old boy were admitted to hospital in Turkey Saturday after coming into contact with birds that could have avian flu, local health authorities were quoted as saying.
Anatolia news agency quoted officials as saying the three, from the village of Bogazkoy, in the southeast, were hospitalised with high temperatures.
A quarantine zone had already been imposed within a 10-kilometre (six mile) radius around Bogazkoy, where 170 birds died, including three other villages nearby, the Turkish health ministry said.
Earlier, the ministry announced that three of four children from the same village who were tested for possible bird flu infection after the potentially lethal H5N1 strain of the virus resurfaced in Turkey do not have the disease.
Additionally, in Egypt, the media is now reporting 6 suspected cases hospitalized, one in critical condition. At this writing, I am unable to tell if these include the 5 patients I wrote about yesterday here. In all likelihood it does.
As always, this is the high flu season, and suspected cases aren't necessarily H5N1 infections. We will have to await testing to know for sure.
