Bird flu epidemiology study results from Thailand

This is an interesting scientific article that goes into detail about the H5N1 bird flu infections suffered by patients in Thailand in 2004. It addresses the hugely important concern of diagnosing bird flu, which is a problem because it does not have unique symptoms.

And in Thailand, it's common for people to get a mosquito spread disease called dengue fever which also produces symptoms much like bird flu, including leucopenia (decreased number of white blood cells) and thrombocytopenia (reduced platelet count)
It is notable that they found that children with bird flu also have a cough and do not have hemoconcentration.

Hemoconcentration means that there's a decrease of blood fluid, concentrating it.

This is from the study of 16 bird flu victims.

The incubation period ranged from 2 to 8 days. All patients had a fever. All had some kind of respiratory symptoms including cough, sputum (mucus or phlegm), dyspnea (shortness of breath) and rhinorrhea (runny nose).
All the patients who died had pneumonia or acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS).
They concluded that bird flu is more lethal in children than adults.

studying bird flu epidemiology results in Thailand


Bird flu Epidemiology
Bird flu Epidemiology