The H5N1 type of avian influenza virus outbreak was lived in Turkey on January 2006; a total of 21 human cases were identified [3] , 12 of which were confirmed by the National Institute for Medical Research [3, 7] . Nine of the cases, including the 4 fatal ones, were from the Dogubeyazit-Van region. The confirmed cases were people aged 3-16 years who had close contact with ill poultry in the rural area in Dogubeyazit or in migrant wards in Van [3, 7, 8] . The timeline of events was summarized in Table 1 .