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Article: Tests: 5 New Cases of Bird Flu in Turkey
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- January 9, 2006
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BENJAMIN HARVEY, Associated Press Writer
AP Online
01-09-2006
Dateline: DOGUBAYAZIT, Turkey
An official with protective mask in a State hospital where two young brothers were hospitalized in Ankara's Kecioren district Sunday, Jan. 8, 2006.The fear over the spread of bird flu in Turkey grow after preliminary tests showed two young brothers and an adult in the capital Ankara have the deadly strain-the first known cases outside the eastern city of Van where at least two siblings died from the virus in the past week. (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)
Turkey reported five new human cases of the H5N1 strain of bird flu in preliminary tests Monday, a Health Ministry official said.
The tests were conducted ...