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Avian Influenza Situation in Iraq update 5
Found on 19 Sep 2006 09:59 GMT
The Ministry of Health in Iraq has retrospectively confirmed the country's third case of human infection with the H5N1 avian influenza virus. The case, a 3-year-old boy, was hospitalized in Baghdad on 15 March 2006. His illness was mild and he fully recovered. During its outbreak, which is now considered over, Iraq faced problems in the shipment of specimens for external verification of diagnos...

Avian Influenza Situation in Iraq Update 4
Found on 01 Mar 2006 00:59 GMT
A WHO collaborating laboratory has verified H5N1 avian influenza as the cause of death in a 39-year-old Iraqi man, previously announced by the Ministry of Health. This brings the number of laboratory-confirmed cases in Iraq, listed in the WHO cumulative table, to 2. Both cases were fatal.

Avian Influenza Situation in Iraq Update 3
Found on 17 Feb 2006 00:59 GMT
The Ministry of Health in Iraq has confirmed the country's second case of human infection with the H5N1 avian influenza virus. The case, which was fatal, occurred in a 39-year-old man from the northern province of Sulaimaniyah.

Avian Influenza Situation in Iraq Update 2
Found on 07 Feb 2006 00:59 GMT
A WHO-led team of international experts, including veterinary expertise from FAO, is now in the Erbil and Sulaimaniyah area of northern Iraq, where a fatal human case of H5N1 infection was confirmed on 30 January. Confirmed outbreaks of highly pathogenic H5N1 in poultry were reported in the area on 2 February.

Avian Influenza Situation in Iraq Update
Found on 02 Feb 2006 00:59 GMT
Specimens from Iraq's first reported case of human infection with the H5N1 avian influenza virus have now been tested at a WHO collaborating laboratory in the United Kingdom. The case was a 15-year-old girl from the northern part of the country who died of severe respiratory disease on 17 January. Test results have now confirmed her infection.

Avian Influenza Situation in Iraq
Found on 30 Jan 2006 00:59 GMT
The Ministry of Health in Iraq has confirmed the country's first case of human infection with the H5N1 avian influenza virus. The case occurred in a 15-year-old girl who died on 17 January following a severe respiratory illness. Her symptoms were compatible with a diagnosis of H5N1 avian influenza.

U.S. health experts leave Iraq after completing bird flu inspection
AP Worldstream 02-13-2006 Dateline: BAGHDAD, Iraq A team of U.S. health experts left Iraq on Monday after completing an inspection of areas in northern Iraq where the country's sole confirmed bird flu case in a human was found. Health authorities believe one other suspect case, the dead uncle of

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U.S. Team Finishes Iraq Bird Flu Inspection
AP Online 02-14-2006 Dateline: BAGHDAD, Iraq A team of U.S. health experts left Iraq on Monday after completing an inspection of areas in northern Iraq where the country's only confirmed bird flu case in a human was found. Health authorities believe one other suspect case, the dead uncle of the

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Health authorities go on bird-flu alert, issue warnings to farmers across Iraq
YAHYA BARZANJI, Associated Press Writer AP Worldstream 01-31-2006 Dateline: SULAIMINYAH, Iraq Health authorities went on high alert Tuesday following Iraq's first reported case of the deadly bird flu virus, warning farmers across the country to inspect their domestic and commercial birds. The

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First Bird Flu Death Confirmed in Iraq
YAHYA BARZANJI, Associated Press Writer AP Online 01-30-2006 Dateline: RANIYA, Iraq Iraqi government workers disinfect vehicles traveling out of local villages, Monday, Jan. 30, 2006, in Raniya, 350 kilometers (217 miles) north of Baghdad, Iraq. Battered by rampant violence and political

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Bird Flu Alert Declared in Southern Iraq
HAIDER HANI, Associated Press Writer AP Online 02-15-2006 Dateline: AMARAH, Iraq Iraqi authorities have declared a bird flu alert in a southern province and called for security forces to prevent people from carrying birds in and out of the area, officials said Wednesday. The alert is the latest

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U.S., U.N. officials arrive in Iraq to help battle bird flu
PAUL GARWOOD, Associated Press Writer AP Worldstream 02-05-2006 Dateline: BAGHDAD, Iraq American and U.N. health experts arrived in Iraq to help this war-ravaged country fight a new battle _ bird flu _ and officials said Sunday that at least eight people are in hospital suffering symptoms akin to

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Bird seller's death prompts bird flu suspicion in Iraq
BAGHDAD, Iraq - Fears that bird flu may have spread to southern Iraq rose Tuesday when authorities announced they were investigating whether a teenage pigeon seller had died of the virus - Iraq's third suspected case. In Amarah, 180 miles southeast of Baghdad, health officials said 14-year-old

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WHO: Tamiflu being sent to Iraq following confirmed human case of bird flu
ALEXANDER G. HIGGINS, Associated Press Writer AP Worldstream 02-03-2006 Dateline: GENEVA A large shipment of an anti-flu drug is being sent to Iraq to help contain any outbreak of bird flu following the first confirmed human case of the disease in the country, a top official of the U.N. health

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THE STRUGGLE FOR IRAQ: DISEASE; Iraqi Doctors Investigating Possible Cases Of...
Iraqi doctors are investigating six suspected cases of bird flu in southern Iraq, including one in which a 25-year-old fisherman died after contact with birds he was keeping in his yard, Iraqi and American health officials said Sunday. Tests are now being performed to determine whether the

Publication: The New York Times

Control of Bird Flu Difficult in Iraq
PAUL GARWOOD, Associated Press Writer AP Online 02-09-2006 Dateline: BAGHDAD, Iraq Children suffering from bird flu-like symptoms are seen in a hospital in Sulaimaniyah, 260 kilometers (160 miles) northeast of Baghdad, Thursday, Feb. 9, 2006. A World Health Organisation (WHO) team arrived in Iraqi

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