Re: Avian Flu - Romanian town quarantined

On Wed, 15 Mar 2006 23:02:24 +0000 (UTC), "keith"
<keith.williams44@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


"Peter Duncanson" <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Wed, 15 Mar 2006 19:56:03 +0000, Peter Duncanson
<mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


The map shows the town, as you said, beside the main road. It is
possible that they have managed to keep the road open, perhaps using the
triangle just south.

www.multimap.com/map/browse.cgi?lat=44.3525&lon=28.0408&scale=50000&icon=x

I wonder how successful this isolation will be? Anyway, I wish them
well.

On second thoughts, the quarantined area will of course include not just
the town as marked on the map but some of the surrounding area. I
suppose that through traffic could be permitted so long as it does not
stop.
--
Peter Duncanson
UK (posting from ukba)

From memory the main population is to the north of the road. Typical USSR
type of concrete collective housing mostly. The long straight road to the
East is a toll road and rail link built on a large bank, as all land
underneath is pretty much below river level with dykes and ditches running
to the Danube's edge, where the water is pumped out over an earth bunding.
The major problem for these folks could be that a lot will have plots of
land outside of town that will need tending, or be reliant on produce bought
in by relatives that live in the outlying villages.

Interesting.

The town has one nuclear reactor providing 10% of Romania's electricity,
and, as you said, one under construction.

The reason I posted this news item is that it was the first I had seen
with a clear(ish) report of people being quarantined. There have been
other reports using the word "quarantine" to describe poultry being
isolated. There can be a tendency for news items to be worded rather
loosely leaving the reader to guess what or who is being quarantined.

For example a Turkish newspaper reporting on events in India said:
http://www.zaman.com/include/yazdir.php?bl=hotnews&alt=&trh=20060223&hn=30113
Town in India Under Bird Flu Quarantine

Navapour province, where cases of bird flu have appeared in
India, was this morning declared a "restricted zone."

Navapour Police Chief P.G Chowdhury announced all roads to the
province have been closed and trains are not allowed to stop at
the province train station.

Chowdhury said after 700,000 poultry were culled yesterday to
prevent the spread of the epidemic, officials ordered further
precautions be introduced in the province.

One of the officials of Maharatska province, Brushan Gagrani
announced that any residents showing symptoms of the illness
will not be allowed to leave Navapour, neither will outsiders
be given permission to enter.

The officials did not give any information on how long the
precautionary measures will continue.

Nine people have been hospitalized since Saturday, when the first
cases appeared in the province; however, officials have announced
that so far, no humans have tested positive to bird flu.

The fact that people without symptoms of the disease are allowed to
leave suggests that this is not a proper quarantining of humans.

<pause while I check the Times of India website>

Ah ha! - a report of people actually being quarantined in that outbreak:
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1422259.cms
Colds, cough trigger scare as bird flu spreads
[ Tuesday, February 21, 2006 11:47:37 amREUTERS ]

MUMBAI: Hundreds of people with cold and cough were turning up at
medical camps in bird flu-hit areas of India on Tuesday as
authorities said culling of poultry would continue for at least one
more day.

So far, no case of human avian influenza has been reported whose
initial symptoms include cold, cough and fever.
...
On Monday, central health authorities said the situation was
"under control", but all eyes were on the test results of eight
people quarantined in a Navapur hospital with flu-like symptoms.

Plan A:

We need to read news reports very carefully. We must never assume that
the reporter knows what he or she is talking about! Useful or vital
details can be lost when an article is an inexpert summary of a more
detailed report. When we get inexpert summaries of inexpert summaries
the useful and accurate information being passed on gets close to zero,
and what is passed on can be very misleading.

Plan B:

Give up reading newspapers.
--
Peter Duncanson
UK (posting from ukba)
.

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