French doctors test woman for bird flu after trip to Turkey

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French doctors test woman for bird flu after trip to Turkey
Monday January 23, 2006

French doctors were carrying out tests last night to establish whether a 32-year-old woman had caught bird flu during a holiday in Turkey.

The woman, who complained of having fever and breathing difficulties, has been placed in isolation and is being treated with the antiviral drug Tamiflu at a hospital in Montpellier, south-eastern France.

The National Institute of Health Awareness (INVS) confirmed: "It is a case of suspected bird flu, given the symptoms and the fact that she saw dead birds during her travels in a country affected by episodes of bird flu."

t added, however, that the woman had had no direct contact with any birds and initial tests for H5N1, the deadly bird flu virus, had proved negative. "Samples taken from the nose and throat are undergoing tests for the virus H5N1 at a laboratory in Marseille," said an INVS spokesperson.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/france/story/0,,1692685,00.html