Kazakhstan's Agriculture Ministry confirmed in a 10 August press release that a recent outbreak of avian flu in Pavlodar Province involved a strain potentially dangerous to humans, Interfax-Kazakhstan reported. The press release stated that an analysis of tissue samples from wild and domesticated birds in Pavlodar Province revealed “highly contagious type-A (H5N1) avian flu.”
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control (http://www.cdc.gov) notes that while H5N1 “does not usually infect humans...human cases of H5N1 infection have occurred in Thailand, Vietnam and Cambodia during large H5N1 outbreaks in poultry. The death rate for these reported cases has been about 50 percent.” No human cases have been confirmed during the recent bird flu outbreak in Kazakhstan, and Golubovka, the village in Pavlodar Province where cases have been confirmed, is currently under quarantine.
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