"Turkey epicentre of war on avian flu
Specialist has 32 patients hospitalized in eastern city
`We are the experts now' in battle to limit sickness, he says
Jan. 14, 2006. 01:00 AM
OAKLAND ROSS
FEATURE WRITER
VAN, Turkey—Three children are dead, and this snowbound mountain town high in eastern Turkey has suddenly become the new epicentre for international concern about a disease called avian flu.
'We are the experts now,' says Dr. Ahmet Faik Oner, chief of pediatric hematology at the Hascanesu Hospital, a rambling complex of four-storey, rose-coloured blocks on Maras St. in downtown Van."
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