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 Infection Information - December 2, 2008
| Indonesia confirms the death of a fourth person in the country due to bird flu. China reports hundreds of farm geese are dead. The deadly H5N1 virus first surfaced in Asia but appears to be spreading quickly to the West. Russia confirmed more bird flu cases in poultry on Monday. The continued reports raise fears the disease could spread across Europe by migratory birds | | Governement officials confirm a 48-year-old man died of bird flu in Thailand after eating a neighbor's infected chickens smuggled in from China. More than 60 people have died of Avian flu since late 2003, all of them in Asia. This fatality is the first in Thailand in about a year. Most human cases have been linked to contact with sick birds, but health officials warn the virus could mutate into a form that can be easily passed between humans, possibly triggering a global pandemic | | Bidding on Roche Holding AG's flu drug Tamiflu has been halted on British Internet auction site eBay. The company pulled the sale of the drug after prices topped 100 pounds ($174) as fears grow over the spread of bird flu. A spokeswoman for eBay says the auction on its British site has been stopped because the sale of prescription drugs is prohibited under the company's rules, "The Tamiflu listings on eBay.co.uk were removed from the site as soon as we became aware of them. We do not permit the listing of any controlled drug or item that requires a prescription | | The frightening prospects of an epic pandemic of bird flu (Avian flu) leads to a rush on protective masks across the U.S. Custom Browser Inc., a distributor of N95 face masks reports a dramatic spike in sales in recent weeks in light of the Avian Flu news. The firm, which usually sells a few cases a month of the popular 3M 9211, 3M 9210, 3M 8233 N100, 3M 1860, 3M 1870 and 3M 8210 masks, now reports its nearly impossible to keep up with demand | | Phoenix, AZ (AHN) A new study by University of Arizona Microbiology Professor Chuck Gerba - "The Germ Doctor" - ranks the TV remote control as the highest carrier of bacteria in a patient's hospital room compared to the toilet bowl handle, bathroom door and call buttons | |
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