Chinese Say Son With Bird Flu Likely Infected Father

Chinese Say Son With Bird Flu Likely Infected Father
An update on recent developments involving the H5N1 virus. Transcript of radio broadcast:
15 April 2008

This is the VOA Special English Health Report.

Researchers in China have reported on a rare human-to-human case of bird flu. They say it is likely that a twenty-four year old man in the eastern province of Jiangsu infected his father last December.

They believe it happened while the father cared for the son in a hospital. The son died. The father lived.

Government researchers say genetic tests showed almost identical forms of the H5N1 virus in the two men. Ninety-one other people came in close contact with them but did not get infected.

The report appeared last week in the Lancet medical journal.

On April third, the World Health Organization said a family in Pakistan showed a high probability of human-to-human infection in a case last year. In that case, an animal doctor was infected with the avian flu virus when he helped destroy diseased birds in Peshawar. His three brothers became infected later although they had no contact with diseased birds.

Gregory Hartl is a project leader in the W.H.O.’s Epidemic and Pandemic Alert and Response office in Geneva. He says experts can never confirm one hundred percent that human-to-human infection with the virus has taken place. But he says there seems to have been at least six cases, including the ones in Pakistan and China in two thousand seven.

Scientists worry that the virus might change over time into a form that passes easily among humans.

In other developments, Egypt reported its third death from H5N1 in the last two weeks. Health officials said a thirty year old woman got sick on April second. She was taken to a hospital seven days later. She was the twenty-second person to die from the virus in Egypt.

South Korea this month reported new outbreaks in birds.

And the United States health secretary urged Indonesia to cooperate more with the World Health Organization to share virus samples. Mike Leavitt spoke Monday in Jakarta. He noted that many life-saving vaccines have resulted from international cooperation.

Indonesia has had the most deaths of any country from H5N1, more than one hundred people. But it wants the right to approve any drug company's use of virus samples from Indonesia. Indonesia also wants guarantees that poor countries would be able to get low-cost vaccines developed from their samples.

And that’s the VOA Special English Health Report, written by Caty Weaver. I’m Faith Lapidus.


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中国人说儿子与禽流感病毒有可能被感染的父亲
最新最近的事态发展，包括H5N1病毒。全文电台广播：
2008年4月15日

这是美国之音特别英语卫生报告。

研究人员在中国已经报告了一种罕见的人传人的禽流感病例。他们说，可能是一个二十四年岁男子在东部省份江苏感染他的父亲在去年12月。

他们认为这事，而父亲照料儿子在医院了。儿子死亡。父亲住了。

政府研究人员说，基因测试显示，几乎相同形式的H5N1禽流感病毒在两名男子。 91其他人前来密切与他们的接触，但没有受到感染。

报告似乎上周在柳叶刀医学杂志。

四月第三，世界卫生组织表示，一个家庭在巴基斯坦发现的几率非常高的人传人的感染病例去年。在这种情况下，动物医生被感染禽流感病毒时，他帮助销毁病禽在白沙瓦。他的3个兄弟，成为感染后，虽然他们没有接触病禽。

Gregory Hartl先生是一个项目负责人在世卫组织的流行病和疾病大流行警戒与反应日内瓦办事处。他说，专家们不能确定100 ％ ，在人与人之间感染该病毒已发生了。但是他说，有似乎已至少有6例，包括那些在巴基斯坦和中国在2000七名。

科学家们担心，这种病毒可能会随着时间而改变，成为一个形式及格容易在人与人之间。

在其他方面的发展，埃及报告了其第三次从死亡的H5N1病毒，在过去两个星期。卫生官员说， 30岁的妇女生病四月第二。她被带到一间医院七天后。她是第二十二届人死于该病毒在埃及。

南韩本月报告了新的鸟类疫情。

和美国卫生部长敦促印度尼西亚更多的合作，与世界卫生组织分享病毒样本的要求。迈克里维特以周一在雅加达。他指出，许多拯救生命的疫苗已造成国际间的合作。

印尼已有死亡人数最多的，任何国家，从H5N1病毒，有超过100人。但它想有权批准任何药物公司使用的病毒样本来自印尼。印度尼西亚也希望保证贫穷国家将能够获得低成本疫苗的研制，从他们的样本。

这也是该美国之音特别英语卫生报告，写caty维夫。我的信仰拉皮德斯。