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HEALTH AUTHORITIES IN Canada have said that the first death from avian flu has taken place in North America.
The death happened in the western plains province of Alberta. The patients had just returned from China.
“I am here to confirm North America’s first human case of H5N1, also known as avian flu,” Canada’s Health Minister Rona Ambrose told a press conference this evening, confirming the patient died.
Officials said the victim, whose gender and other identifying traits were withheld to protect the family’s privacy, had recently returned from a trip to Beijing.
The otherwise healthy individual, who had travelled with two companions, was admitted to hospital with a fever and headache and passed away on January 3.
Officials stressed the risk to the population is “extremely low” as there are no known cases of human-to-human transmission of the virus.
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‘Mr president, bird flu is coming to America’.
George Bush, ‘bomb the canaries’
Just to clarify, do you mean the birds, or the islands? . Just blow them both up and then I won’t have to bother thinking up a believable lie.
Did you know that the Latin name for the Tibetan Blackbird is “Turdus maximus”
True story.
And so it begins….
This virus was made in a laboratory by big drug companies.
Why would they do that
To then sell us the cure and push vaccinations therefore maximising profits
Two points,firstoff,influenza comes from birds and mammals,thats where it originates,so every flu is a bird/pig/horse flu,secondly it kills up to 500,000 people every year,and most of those are infants old people and people with comorbid illnesses!
so the animals get us back for eating them………………….
It’s a fair point. If some species started eating me , I’d be pretty pissed off too .
A pig flu? I’ll believe it when I see it.
One death of bird flu… World wide attention… What a world we live in…
point of information: theres a also a different strain of bird flu (H10N8) that a chinese woman died from mid december last. should be interesting what happens in 2014 with regard to these different strains.
Imagine being in that plane…
I wish the Chinese would stop shagging birds
I just read an article that stated at least 20 people died from flu in North Texas alone “this Season”. So I don’t understand why this 1 death makes world news?
http://zeenews.india.com/news/health/health-news/texas-confirms-20-flu-deaths_25978.html
H5NI is an extremely dangerous and potebt form of flu that can quickly spread if uncontrolled.
Do you not remember what happened last time?
Terrible to hear.
Better than being deaf
The person was admitted to hospital for fever and headache?? Really?
I know what id be told if I went to hospital complaining of fever and headache, go home and take a paracetamol.
Over the last decade in 15 countries around the world were detected 650 cases of avian flu, and 60% of them are fatal.
Only in 2013 reported cases of bird flu were 38 , and 24 of them proved fatal.
Canadian residents have been warned to be especially careful when visiting China, since 60% of cases with fatal outcome.
The virus can lead to a new global bird flu pandemic, the World Health Organization warned in May 2013 in the same year the plague started in China.
Read more at http://stomachflu-symptoms.blogspot.com/2014/01/flu-symptoms-2014-h5n1-bird-flu-death.html
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