Possible link to H5N1 and Encephalitis
I missed posting on the 53rd Indonesian bird flu death, but I only had to wait a couple days for number 54. This one raises some troubling questions. Here's what the CBC says:
"JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - A 67-year-old woman died overnight of bird flu, the second death in as many days, taking Indonesia's human toll from the disease to 54, Health Ministry and hospital officials said Monday.
The woman, who was also diagnosed with encephalitis, or inflammation of the brain, was hospitalized with bird flu symptoms on Oct. 10 after coming into contact with fowl in West Java province, said Runizar Roesin of the National Bird Flu Information Center.
She died late Sunday, he said, a day after an 11-year-old boy succumbed to the disease in a Jakarta hospital.
Health officials were trying determine whether there was any link between bird flu and the woman's brain inflammation, said Hadi Yusuf, her chief doctor at the Hasan Sadikin hospital in Bandung town."
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Well if H5N1 can get into the CNS that is extremely bad news. Inflammation in the head = increased inter-cranial pressure, plus a cytokine storm would make it even worse - leading to what? Avian Flu Related Human Head Explosion Syndrome?? Hemorrhagic fever where they bleed out from their eyes and mouth and ears?
We already know that Bird Flu in birds can make them explode with the pressure from built up from edema.
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