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Good news to report out of Bangladesh.
The poultry farmer, and his wife and son, all isolated suspected of having contracted the H5N1 virus have been cleared of the disease, and have been released from the hospital.
This from the People's Daily Online.
Bangladesh's bird flu-suspect farm owner safe from danger
The bird flu-suspect poultry farm owner in Bangladesh's western Rajshahi district and his wife and son, who were quarantined on suspicion of avian influenza infection, were released from hospital Sunday after pathological tests in the capital produced negative results.
The tests of throat and nasal swabs of the farm owner Ashraf Hossain, 42, and his wife and 14-year-old son were carried out at the virology departments of Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR) and the ICDDR, B (International Cent for Diarrhea Disease Research, Bangladesh).
"We recommended releasing the three after extensive tests. We first performed a rapid test for influenza at the virology department of IEDCR and the results were negative for all three," Prof Mahmudur Rahman, director of IEDCR, was quoted by leading English newspaper The Daily Star as saying on Monday.
