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Five Brothers With H5N1 Bird Flu Symptoms in Dogubeyazit
Recombinomics Commentary
January 21, 2006
In Dogubeyazit where 4 children died, 5 people from the same family were taken to Dogubeyazit State Hospital upon suspicion of avian influenza. According to information received, brothers called Deniz (14), Erol (12), Gülsen (10), Nazli (7) ,Erkan Ulutas (6), suffering from lassitude for 4 days and complaining for blood flow from mouth in Ortulu Village were taken to emergency service in Dogubeyazit State Hospital.
The above description of 5 brothers from Dogubeyazit with bird flu symptoms including blood flow from the mouth sounds virtually identical to the four Kocyigit siblings rushed to Van three weeks ago. The Kocygit siblings and two sets of Ozcan cousins had previously been together at the Kocyigit residence in Dogubeyazit and eventually four family members died, 3 more were H5N1 confirmed, and 9 more were hospitalized and some of all of the hospitalized relatives had symptoms.
These large clusters show that H5N1 is more efficiently transmitting from birds to humans and additional transmission are seen human-to-human within families. This large cluster indicates that although a large number of residents from Digubeyzit have been admitted to the hospital or were examined, new large cluster are still happening.
Details of the larger cluster are still lacking and many family members have not tested positive for H5N1. It is not clear if this is yet another cluster with the above five brothers as the first five cases.
Hopefully information on these patients and their relationship to other Dogubeyazit residents will be more forthcoming.
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