Pandemic Québec

Situation update around the world

According to the World Health Organization, the influenza pandemic alert is now at level 3, which means that the risk of human-to-human transmission is nil to very low. Since 2003, there have been 208 reported cases of avian influenza in humans. Of these, 115 have died. There have not been any cases in Canada or Québec.

In light of the epidemiological data available since October 2005, the risk of human cases developing could be higher in countries such as Azerbaijan, Cambodia, Egypt, Indonesia, Iraq (2 cases of infection in humans), Thailand, Turkey and Vietnam. These are countries where cases of H5N1 infection have indeed been detected, and confirmed by laboratory testing, in humans and domestic or wild birds.

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