GERMANY: TWO WOMEN ARE BEING EXAMINED FOR "BIRD FLU" LIKE SYMPTOMS AFTER RETURNING FROM HOLIDAY IN THAILAND

Record ID: 648833

  • Title: GERMANY: TWO WOMEN ARE BEING EXAMINED FOR "BIRD FLU" LIKE SYMPTOMS AFTER RETURNING FROM HOLIDAY IN THAILAND
  • Date: 2nd February 2004
  • Summary: (W5) HAMBURG, GERMANY (FEBRUARY 2, 2004) (TNC - ACCESS ALL) 1. WIDE /PAN EXTERIOR OF TROPICAL ILLNESS CLINIC 0.14 2. SLV EXTERIOR OF CLINIC WITH SIGN 0.20 3. SLV AMBULANCE SERVICE ARRIVING 0.33 4. VARIOUS, MAN IN PROTECTIVE CLOTHING DRIVING AMBULANCE 0.47 5. CLOSE UP OF MAN DRIVING AMBULANCE, WEARING MASK 0.55 6. SLV RED CROSS ON THE TROPICAL ILLNESS CLINIC SIGN 1.03 7. PAN TO AMBULANCE 1.13 8. SMV TWO MEN IN PROTECTIVE CLOTHING GETTING OUT OF AMBULANCE 1.19 9. CLOSE UP OF PERSON HIDDEN UNDER BLANKET BEING TAKEN FROM AMBULANCE ON STRETCHER 1.27 10. SLV MORE OF PERSON BEING CARRIED ON STRETCHER 1.34 11. SLV STRETCHER WHEELED PAST RED CROSS LOGO 1.56 12. SLB PATIENT WRAPPED IN SHEET WHEELED INTO CLINIC BY OTHERS WEARING PROTECTIVE CLOTHING 2.12 13. SLV/ PAN OF EMERGENCY SERVICE VEHICLES 2.20 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 17th February 2004 12:00
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  • Location: HAMBURG, GERMANY
  • Country: Germany
  • Reuters ID: LVAAFCJQNZH0VL6Z8F9AR2KV2KRE
  • Story Text: Women being checked for bird flu symptoms in
    Germany.



    A German tropical institute is examining two women for possible
    bird flu infection, authorities said on Monday (February 2).

    The ambulance service in the northern port city of Hamburg said
    a female holidaymaker returning to Germany from a vacation in
    Thailand was being checked for bird flu symptoms at the Bernhard
    Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine.

    A woman who had accompanied her was also being examined
    at the institute, a spokesman said.

    The institute declined to confirm the suspected cases.

    It said it would release a statement at 1600 GMT.

    In the meantime a spokeswoman for the Robert Koch
    Institute said the two Germans suspected of having bird flu
    were unlikely to be infected with the virus.

    She referred to comments from the World Health
    Organisation, which said on Monday that the strain of bird
    flu ravaging poultry farms across Asia cannot spread easily
    between humans despite one suspected case in Vietnam.

    So far 12 people have died from bird flu in an epidemic
    that is sweeping Asia.

    The epidemic has hit stock markets and share indices
    fell in Hong Kong and Thailand as economists said on Monday
    the possibility of human transmission would have much more
    serious implications.

    Ten countries in Asia have now reported cases of bird
    flu and millions of chickens and ducks across the region
    have died of the disease or been culled to prevent the
    virus spreading. But only two countries -- Thailand and
    Vietnam -- have recorded the virus in humans.


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