Bird Flu Monitor: A TIME'S MEMORY: Avian Flu Cases in Egypt Raise Alarms

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[A TIME'S MEMORY] The government has loudly warned its citizens to avoid sick poultry and has trained doctors in remote clinics to give Tamiflu quickly and move cases to state hospitals, where treatment is free. In a country where chickens are both kept as pets and eaten, toddlers still touch dying birds but poultry workers would not.Egypt’s outbreak response contrasts sharply to Indonesia’s, where the sick often take herbal medicine first and where rural clinics lack Tamiflu, she said.

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