[Centraal] Vogelgriep in Europa

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Op donderdag 13 oktober 2005 18:13 schreef Pieldeprutkarbonkel het volgende:
Ramen dicht en geen ei of kip meer eten Marietje !

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Op donderdag 13 oktober 2005 18:07 schreef Marietje_34 het volgende:

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is er vandaag toch al gekomen? t' gaat idd om dat H5 en nog wat-virus

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Op donderdag 13 oktober 2005 18:05 schreef Pieldeprutkarbonkel het volgende:
Hoorde net op de radio "niet in de de buurt van trekvogels komen"

Hoezo paniek zaaien?

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Op donderdag 13 oktober 2005 20:04 schreef Doderok het volgende:
Waar ligt dat donskussen ook alweer?
Net een variant op de poederbrief bedacht...

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Op donderdag 13 oktober 2005 15:57 schreef Steijn het volgende:

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Turkish medical staff on Friday tested nine people for possible bird flu, a day after European health officials confirmed the arrival of the deadly H5N1 strain in the country.

European Union veterinary experts are holding crisis talks on the spread of bird flu to examine the risk that migratory birds might pose for the 25-nation bloc.

European Commission spokesman Philip Tod told the BBC : "The outcome that we expect from this meeting is for the standing committee to vote on the commission proposal for a decision on preventative measures concerning avian flu."

"The measure includes a requirement for member states to reduce the risk of possible contact between wild birds and poultry, especially in high risk areas, such as wetlands or other areas going to be frequented by migratory birds."

He said it would be up to member states to define those areas at risk and to apply the necessary measures.

The European Commission said on Thursday the bird flu outbreak in Turkey was indeed H5N1 and advised Europe to prepare for a pandemic. Romania must wait another 24 hours because of a customs delay to find out if it also has the virulent H5N1 strain.

Turkish health officials kept nine people from the western town of Turgutlu under observation on Friday and carried out tests after the death of 40 of their pigeons, state-run Anatolian news agency said.

"Acting on a tip-off, we took the family which owned the pigeons and the neighbors who made the tip-off, in all nine people, to the hospital," the agency quoted local health official Osman Ozturk as saying.

"There is no sign of illness in the nine people, but we have taken all the people who have been in contact with the birds under observation," he said.

No human cases of the disease have been reported in Europe and the major threat of a human pandemic is still in Asia, experts believe. Bird flu has killed more than 60 people in Asia since 2003.

The World Health Organization in Geneva sought to calm fears, saying evidence showed H5N1 did not spread easily from birds to humans.

But a senior WHO official in the Philippines said the international community needed to raise about $260 million to fight bird flu in Southeast Asia.

To calm the public, the Turkish and French prime ministers made a point of eating chicken.

Also Thursday, the EU announced it would ban imports of live birds, poultry meat and other poultry products from Romania. Imports of live birds and feathers from Turkey have been banned since Monday.

On Friday, France announced it had banned poultry imports from Turkey and Romania, in accordance with the EU decision.

Avian flu is transmitted to humans only if they eat or live in very close contact with infected birds. But scientists say H5N1 could mutate into a form that could pass between humans.

Migratory birds are a natural reservoir of avian influenza viruses and do not usually become sick when infected. Domestic poultry die quickly when infected.

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Op vrijdag 14 oktober 2005 11:54 schreef Drugshond het volgende:
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Op vrijdag 14 oktober 2005 15:41 schreef Steijn het volgende:

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Opvallend hoe het sterftecijfer per land verschilt.

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Op vrijdag 14 oktober 2005 19:13 schreef Drugshond het volgende:

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Hmmz, niet zo leuk nieuws. Eigenlijk staan we nog steeds op de eerste honkplaat.

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Op vrijdag 14 oktober 2005 19:46 schreef zhe-devilll het volgende:
Vreemd dat er allemaal vage virussen vooral vanuit China komen of niet?

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Op vrijdag 14 oktober 2005 11:54 schreef Drugshond het volgende:
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Bird flu pandemic 'will hit UK'



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A bird flu pandemic will hit Britain - but not necessarily this winter, the chief medical officer has said.
Sir Liam Donaldson said a deadly outbreak would come when a strain of bird flu mutated with human flu.

He told the BBC's Sunday AM show it would probably kill about 50,000 people in the UK, but the epicentre of any new strain was likely to be in East Asia.

The UK has so far stockpiled 2.5m doses of anti-viral drugs - and may restrict travel if there is an outbreak.

New vaccine

On Saturday, UK tests confirmed a case in Romania of a strain of bird flu which is potentially deadly to humans, sparking fears avian flu could spread to the UK through migrating birds.

The estimate we are working to in the number of deaths is around 50,000 excess deaths from flu

Sir Liam Donaldson
A pandemic would occur if this strain of bird flu mutated with human flu - which spreads very easily - to create a new strain.

He said it was "less likely" that any new flu strain would come this year.

However he said that if the flu first emerged in another part of the world it would give UK scientists time to try to create an effective vaccine against the virus before it arrived in the UK.

"We can't make this pandemic go away, because it is a natural phenomenon, it will come," he said.

"But what we can do is to limit its impact."

He said a contingency plan was being released on Thursday, outlining the steps the government would take in the event of an outbreak.

750,000 deaths?

If a new strain did hit the UK before a vaccine was created, Sir Liam said an extra 50,000 would probably die - and a death toll of 750,000 was "not impossible".

"In a normal winter flu year... flu actually kills in excess of 12,000 people," Sir Liam said.

"But if we had a pandemic, the problem would be that our existing vaccines don't work against it, we would have to develop a new vaccine, and people don't have natural immunity because it hasn't be around before."

The total death toll depended on whether the mutated strain was a mild or serious one, he said.

However, Dr Martin Wiselka, consultant in infectious diseases at Leicester Royal Infirmary, said a death toll of 50,000 was a "complete guess".

"It could be worse, it could be better. I think initially it could be worse than that," he said.

"When a new strain arrives it tends to be more virulent but then it slows down. But the honest answer is we don't know."


Measures such as controlling movement of populations are not as important, because flu transmits extremely quickly

Sir Liam Donaldson
If a pandemic did materialise, the top priority other than vaccination would be anti-viral medicine which would "stop some people dying", Sir Liam said.

The UK has ordered 14.6m doses of anti-viral drug Tamiflu - enough for 25% of the population - which would alleviate symptoms among people affected.

Sir Liam admitted the UK only had 2.5m doses so far, with 800,000 new doses arriving every month.

The chief medical officer said key NHS workers would be the first to get treatment, but during any outbreak it would soon become apparent which age group was worst affected, and treatment would be targeted towards them.

Measures such as controlling movement of populations were not so important, because flu transmitted extremely quickly, he said.

However, the government might advise people to avoid non-essential travel in a bid to slow the spread of the virus, he acknowledged. It also might prove necessary to close schools and other public buildings.

But this would not affect air travel, he said.

'Different times'

Sir Liam said flu pandemics were things which came in "natural cycles" every 10 to 40 years, with the last taking place in 1968/69.

However he said that three decades ago there were no anti-viral drugs to combat the virus in its initial stages, as there are now.

He also said the situation was not comparable to the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918 which killed millions around the world, as we now lived in "different times" with great advances in hospitals and medical science.

"We have to get the [new] virus from wherever it occurs... and get it into our labs and then make a vaccine," he added.


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Op het Griekse eiland Chios is vogelgriep vastgesteld. Uit testen bij verscheidene kalkoenen is gebleken dat zij besmet zijn met het virus H5, heeft het Griekse ministerie van Landbouw maandag laten weten.

Chios ligt voor de kust van Turkije, waar eerder vogelgriep is vastgesteld. Daar ging het om de voor mensen gevaarlijke variant N1 van H5. Verdere testen moeten uitwijzen of het op Chios ook om die variant gaat.

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Op maandag 17 oktober 2005 19:14 schreef Frutsel het volgende:
Wat te denken van al die Sesamstraat knuffellaars die Pino beetpakken

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Op donderdag 13 oktober 2005 18:23 schreef Steijn het volgende:

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H5N1

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Op dinsdag 18 oktober 2005 01:51 schreef LuukBes het volgende:
Allemaal nep en angstophitsing. 1 grote placebo waardoor mensen zich angstig en ziek kunnen gaan voelen.

Wat zijn jullie toch dom.

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Op maandag 17 oktober 2005 18:14 schreef Asskicker14 het volgende:
Kippen raken snel besmet

Ten eerste: het valt mee. Mensen raken niet zomaar besmet. Alleen bij heel intensief contact met besmette vogels, of vogelmest, kan iemand het virus oppikken.

Hoewel niet heel veel bekend is over de zestig officiële slachtoffers van het virus in Azië, lijkt het alleen voor te komen bij mensen met een relatief zwakke gezondheid die zelf pluimvee houden, in hun tuintje bijvoorbeeld.

Daarom is er geen reden voor paniek, stelt Wiebe van der Sluis, hoofdredacteur van World Poultry, een tijdschrift voor professionals in de pluimveesector. Een reis naar Turkije afzeggen hoeft niet.

Sick.

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Op dinsdag 18 oktober 2005 02:21 schreef zoalshetis het volgende:
laten we vooral het aanpassingsvermogen van een virus niet onderschatten...

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Op dinsdag 18 oktober 2005 02:38 schreef zoalshetis het volgende:
en turkije maar roepen dat het in hun land niet voor is gekomen... is dat de partner die europa wil? een liegebeest?

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Op dinsdag 18 oktober 2005 13:57 schreef Drugshond het volgende:

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Zoiets....
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Het gaat hard....nu de vogeltrek goed op gang is gekomen.

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A parrot that died in quarantine in the UK has tested positive for avian flu, the government has said.
The Department for the Environment, Fisheries and Food said the H5 strain of the disease was found, but has not said if it was the lethal H5N1 strain.

The bird was imported from south America and arrived in mid-September.

It is the first case of avian flu in Britain - it has been found in Romania, Turkey and Greece after apparently being carried from Asia by wild birds.

Disease-free status

UK chief veterinary officer Debby Reynolds said: "The confirmed case does not affect the UK's official disease free status because the disease has been identified in imported birds during quarantine."

Many countries are taking steps to counter the spread of the virus, although scientists say the disease does not appear to be able to spread between humans.

The Swiss government, following similar action in Austria and Germany, has ordered poultry farmers to keep all their birds indoors. The ban on free-range farming will last until the middle of December.

European Union health ministers have been holding a second day of meetings to discuss their response to the disease.

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Op zaterdag 22 oktober 2005 17:55 schreef indahnesia.com het volgende:
En die papagaai kwam uit...... Suriname Terwijl juist dáár niets vandaan zou moeten komen omdat dat veilig geacht werd.