Talk:Sample from Turkish patient shows mutated Bird Flu virus

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Please use the links in the infobox to check details on the death toll. The current figure on Wikipedia is 80. --Brian McNeil / talk 16:51, 23 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

If you want to know why I caught the death toll error, look at the edit history for the template. I maintain that figure for the site. :-) --Brian McNeil / talk 17:09, 23 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Clarification[edit]

In Turkey the fatality rate from the Bird Flu is 50% where elsewhere in the world...

So far four have died in Turkey and twenty-one have been infected.

4 / 21 != .5 ... what is the source of the 50% mortality rate? If this is not an innacuracy, perhaps a link to a source indicating the method for calculating the mortality rate (e.g. death after 30 days rather than immediate death after contraction) would be prudent. Or, at the very least, a footnote indicating where this statistic was lifted from. 70.92.174.251 00:38, 25 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]


The title is wrong. Either change "Sample" to "Samples", or change "show" to "shows" "Sample from Turkey patient show mutated Bird Flu virus" makes no sense.