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Europe on alert over bird flu pandemic
Health experts across Europe are on alert, anxiously monitoring human bird flu to see if efforts to contain the virus can stop it spreading to the European Union.
Confirmed cases of the deadly H5N1 strain in three people living near Turkey's capital Ankara, and more suspected cases in eastern Turkey, prompted EU experts to widen an existing ban on imports and to review existing EU-level surveillance efforts.
But a European Commission spokesman emphasised yesterday that there was still no evidence that the virus had become transmissible directly between humans.
The EU banned imports of live birds and poultry products, including feathers, from Turkey, last October, during the last bird flu outbreak.
As of yesterday, imports of untreated bird feathers were also banned from countries bordering eastern Turkey - Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia, Syria, Iran and Iraq.
HSBC crisis plan
Today, the HSBC bank said it estimated that up to half of its staff could fall ill or be absent from work at the peak of the next flu pandemic.
Bob Piggott, head of group crisis management at HSBC, told the Financial Times he was devising ways to cope with as little as 50 per cent of staff during a pandemic.
He said: "None of us knows the virulence of the virus, but I would rather be prepared for the worst."
There are now a total of 14 cases of bird flu in humans, confirmed by the Turkish authorities as involving the H5N1 strain, out of a total of 48 suspected cases still under investigation.
A joint inquiry team made up of experts from the World Health Organisation, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control and the European Commission arrived in the original Turkish outbreak area of Van yesterday.
They are helping support local efforts to isolate the outbreak and establish definitively whether any human-to-human transmission has occurred.
Even if there is no human-to-human transmission, the three confirmed human cases near Ankara, about 620 miles to the west, show the rate of spread of the disease in birds.
A commission spokesman said yesterday: "Obviously it is bad enough that it is affecting birds, but of course we are happy that it has not become a wider problem among the human population and we hope that it remains that way."
Transmission becoming easier
The Standing Committee accepted yesterday the Turkish evidence that so far the human deaths from H5N1 had all been due to contracting the virus directly from close contact with diseased poultry.
But the spread westwards suggests that, although the worst-case scenario of human-to-human transmission has not transpired so far, the transmission between birds and poultry is becoming easier.
The commission insists EU surveillance measures, stepped up last October, are effective.
In the last four months about 25,000 wild birds have been tested in the EU for avian flu and all tested negative.
"There has been no reported case of H5N1 in the EU to date" emphasised the spokesman.
The latest scare began last week when a Turkish brother and sister aged 14 and 15, died after handling diseased poultry. Their 11-year old sister also died and is believed to have also contracted the H5N1 strain.
They were the first fatalities outside South east Asia, where about 70 people have been killed by the same strain in the last two years.
Turkey's mass cull of poultry is due to continue in an attempt to halt the spread of the disease.
6 people have commented on this story so far.
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Turkey is not part of the EU although it has been lobbying hard trying to become a member.
Seeing children in Turkey being left to play around birds even now upsets me. You'd think the parents wouldn't let their little ones anywhere near the birds.
The Turkish Government shows no compassion or real action in helping their people.
- Richard, England
Press and headline scare mongers have a field day. Until the bird flu virus can or is able to be transmitted to human to human, tourists in tourist areas are not in danger. Most these birds are in villages where they are kept in the homes during cold winter months and obviously have close contacts.
I have a holiday home in Turkey and have no concerns about travelling unless as John from Trowbridge states the Foreign Office advises against it. At present scientists do not know if it is even possible that the virus will be able to transmit to human to human, so what happens when the first cases is ever reported here in the UK, no one will leave the house - birds fly, and it seems it is only a matter of time. Turkey is currently not part of the EU. Anyone who has booked at holiday to Turkey should wait awhile and for proper advice before they panic into not travelling.
- Denise, Littlehamtpon
Remember mad cow disease and the human form CJD which killed at least as many in the UK as bird flu has claimed. Did we all leave the UK to get away from it? No we didn't. Still, it killed tourism for a while. I'd enjoy the holiday in Turkey and only cancel if the Foreign Office advise you to avoid your specific destination.
