Wednesday, October 26, 2005
New Human case in French Reunion
A traveler returning to the French island Reunion from Thailand has been diagnosed with H5N1. It's not clear yet how the person caught the virus, nor whether anyone else on the planes he/she had travelled on are showing symptoms.
update: The tourist had been to Thailand on holiday between 12th-19th October and was exposed to the virus, it is assumed, durign a trip to a bird park. If this is a true assessment, then it's quite worrying, as the guy was unlikely to have been closely handling the birds, which is the only way we are being told it is transmissable at the moment.
update: The tourist had been to Thailand on holiday between 12th-19th October and was exposed to the virus, it is assumed, durign a trip to a bird park. If this is a true assessment, then it's quite worrying, as the guy was unlikely to have been closely handling the birds, which is the only way we are being told it is transmissable at the moment.
# posted by steve @ 3:48 pm 
