"All three, that include two members of a culling team and a woman of Dhulabari, near to Mechinagar – 10, government-declared bird flu crisis zone, have been discharged from hospital," said Manas Kumar Banarjee, coordinator of the Avian Influenza Control Project, under the Ministry of Health and Population. "They were not infected with the bird flu." [break]
Two members of the chicken culling team, an animal health worker suffering diarrhea and a veterinary doctor suffering cough, throat pain and fever, were admitted to the Mechi Zonal Hospital. Similarly, a woman of Dhulabari suffering fever, cough and throat pain was also admitted to the hospital.
The hospital discharged the animal health worker after confirmation his health problem was not due to avian flu.
Similarly, the veterinary doctor was diagnosed with kidney problems, while the woman´s symptoms were found to be attributed to a medical abortion. She was discharged yesterday, Dr Banarjee said.
On January 22, the Ministry began active surveillance on those living around the crisis zone. Symptoms of bird flu are siimilar to the symptoms of general flu among human, such as cough, fever and throat infection.
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