Via Kuwait Times: Bird flu tests on four Bangladeshis 'positive.' Excerpt:
The four Bangladeshi workers who had been culling and burying chicken infected with the deadly bird flu virus in Wafra farms were admitted to the Infectious Diseases Hospital on Tuesday.
"Though the four workers were suspected to be infected with the bird flu virus, there have been no obvious symptoms of the disease," said Al-Duaij. Bird flu symptoms vary from fever, cough, sore throat, fatigue to vomiting.
"The Bangladeshi workers took protective doses before handling the infected birds, and that's why they showed no symptoms of the disease. We only knew that they might be infected from the results of the blood samples," he added.
Al-Duaij stated that the four workers are currently quarantined in a special ward in the hospital and are taking "a double-dose of Tamiflu: two tablets twice a day."
He also added that Kuwait has enough stocks of drugs like Tamiflu to treat "not less than 200,000 persons in case of a virus epidemic."
Meanwhile, no more bird flu cases were detected during the last 24 hours in Kuwait, Dr Ahmad Al-Shatti, spokesman of the National Joint Committee for Combating Bird Flu, told Kuwait Times yesterday.
