WHO: Deaths in Turkey Were From H5N1 Flu - Yahoo! News
WHO: Deaths in Turkey Were From H5N1 Flu - Yahoo! News: "By ALEXANDER G. HIGGINS, Associated Press Writer 2 hours, 37 minutes ago
GENEVA - Two teenage siblings who died of bird flu in Turkey this week were infected with the deadly H5N1 strain of the virus, the first time the strain has killed humans outside East Asia, the U.N. health agency said Saturday.
The World Health Organization said it was sending specialists to Turkey to determine whether the virus was transmitted from person to person.
'The laboratory in the U.K. said that they have detected H5N1 in samples from the two fatal cases,' WHO spokeswoman Maria Cheng told The Associated Press."
GENEVA - Two teenage siblings who died of bird flu in Turkey this week were infected with the deadly H5N1 strain of the virus, the first time the strain has killed humans outside East Asia, the U.N. health agency said Saturday.
The World Health Organization said it was sending specialists to Turkey to determine whether the virus was transmitted from person to person.
'The laboratory in the U.K. said that they have detected H5N1 in samples from the two fatal cases,' WHO spokeswoman Maria Cheng told The Associated Press."
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