WHO will adjust the number of cases and deaths in Turkey in its cumulative table of laboratory-confirmed cases upon receipt of results from the UK laboratory.
Genotyping of the PCR-amplified isolate from the confirmed case shows high homogeneity with other H5N1 isolates from poultry in Java, and no evidence of reassortment.
Most mystifying are why reported deaths have occurred only in Mexico so far and why confirmed cases reported elsewhere are mild.
WHO will continue to request that these countries report the first confirmed cases and, as far as feasible, provide weekly aggregated case numbers and descriptive epidemiology of the early cases.
The number of confirmed cases of the H1N1 swine flu virus is rising worldwide -- with nearly all of Mexico, the epicenter of the outbreak, at a standstill in a bid to contain the illness.
In a study of 60 patients at an English psychiatric hospital, none had an autistic condition diagnosed after routine screening, despite 11 later being shown to have been confirmed cases.
The newly confirmed case is the 17th in Indonesia and the 12th fatality.
This brings the number of laboratory-confirmed cases in Iraq, listed in the WHO cumulative table, to 2. Both cases were fatal.
The death toll remained at 19 and the number of confirmed cases increased slightly to 506, including the dead.
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