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Article: PM denies negligence over bird flu outbreak
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- January 6, 2006
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PM denies negligence over bird flu outbreak
ANKARA, Jan. 6 (Xinhua) -- Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip
Erdogan on Friday rejected suggestion that his government and health
authorities have been tardy in acting to contain an outbreak of avian
flu in eastern Turkey that has so far claimed three lives.
Three children from the same family died of human form of bird flu
in the 100th University Medical Faculty in Van province and some two
dozen people have been hospitalized with bird flu symptoms in the
region.
Fighting the outbreak of avian flu was matter of awareness and
that work would be carried out to further build awareness about the
disease, Erdogan was quoted as saying at the ...