Who is Colucci and what is this about Turkey?

[Guest guest]

Colucci writes in Market Day on Sept 28, 2006:

" What is scaring the scientists now are the recent developments of the

bird flu in Turkey. They fear that the virus may have already mutated

and the transmission from one human to the other has now been possible.

This is because in the span of a week, 15 people were reported to be

infected already. "

I can find no report of any human infections in Turkey at this point in

time. Maybe Market Day posted a story that was written a year ago,

thinking that it was current. When was that outbreak in Turkey?

http://www.market-day.net/article_29009/20060928/Has-the-Bird-Flu-Virus-

Outbreak-Begun.php

[Guest guest]

To answer my own question about the date of the Turkey outbreak, it

began January 1, 2006.

Jan. 1, 2006 – A 14-year-old boy named Mehmet Ali Kocyigit, from

Dogubeyazit, Turkey, dies, but health officials say bird flu was not

the cause, instead attributing the death to pnuemonia.

Jan. 4, 2006 – Mehmet Ali Kocyigit, who died on Jan. 1, is confirmed

to have died of bird flu, contradicting the initial report that the

boy had died from pneumonia.

And it went on with several more deaths in the same town. It was a

scary time. The number of human infections increased geometrically

for several days. It looked like the real thing.

And Colucci seems to be a health writer for Market Day but I

could find nothing more about him. It must be an old article that

got recycled.

-- Don French

>

> Colucci writes in Market Day on Sept 28, 2006:

>

> " What is scaring the scientists now are the recent developments of

the

> bird flu in Turkey. They fear that the virus may have already

mutated

> and the transmission from one human to the other has now been

possible.

> This is because in the span of a week, 15 people were reported to

be

> infected already. "

>

> I can find no report of any human infections in Turkey at this

point in

> time. Maybe Market Day posted a story that was written a year ago,

> thinking that it was current. When was that outbreak in Turkey?

>

> http://www.market-day.net/article_29009/20060928/Has-the-Bird-Flu-

Virus-

> Outbreak-Begun.php

>