Saturday, December 31, 2011

Madzorera denies bird flu death

Madzorera denies bird flu death

Saturday, 31 December 2011 18:26
BY NQABA MATSHAZI
MYSTERY surrounds the cause of death of MDC-T legislator, Gladys Gombami.
News reports said she had died of avian influenza or bird flu but health expects deny there any cases of the disease in the country. Health and Child Welfare Minister Henry Madzorera said the government had not raised any alerts of an outbreak of the disease as they had not received reports of a possible epidemic.

“The Epidemics and Disease Control centre has not informed me about any outbreak, but they are closed and we can only know that after the holidays,” he said.

Madzorera said he could not comment further as he had not received any news of an outbreak.

Officials from the health ministry also revealed that there were no known cases of the virus in Zimbabwe or in the region. They said it was highly unlikely that there could have been an outbreak in the country.

The only recently recorded cases, the officials said, were reported in Hong Kong and a spread to Zimbabwe at this stage was highly improbable...http://www.thestandard.co.zw/local/3...flu-death.html

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