Some h5n1 thats what. These people don’t need anymore problems but damn it now they got them.

SULAIMANIYAH, Iraq — A 15-year-old Iraqi girl who died earlier this month is now believed to be that country’s — and the Middle East’s — first case of H5N1 avian flu, Iraqi and World Health Organization authorities confirmed Monday.

The girl’s uncle, who tended her while she was sick and who died 10 days after she did, is also suspected of being a case. A WHO official said the agency needs to investigate the possibility that the man may have become infected by his niece.

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The prospect of a bird flu outbreak in Iraq is especially alarming because the country is gripped by armed insurgency and lacks the resources of other governments in the region. Government institutions, however, are most effective in the Kurdish-run area of the north where the girl lived.

Kurdistan Health Ministry official Najimuldin Hassan said 14 people have recently been admitted to local hospitals exhibiting bird flu symptoms, but just two remain in Sulaimaniyah Teaching Hospital suspected of possibly having the disease.

It could take up to three weeks to find out how the virus entered Iraq and how it will be contained, WHO spokesman Dick Thompson said, adding that the security situation in Iraq would not prevent doctors from going to help.

“We need to identify what the source of this child’s exposure was and to conduct epidemiological tests in the field,” Thompson said. “It has to be in the environment somewhere and we need to identify that before going ahead in assessing control or (bird) elimination efforts,” the WHO official said