Oct 19 23:47
Father And Son Treated For Suspected Bird Flu
Jakarta (ANTARA News) - A father and his son were admitted to the Sulianti Saroso special hospital for infectious diseases here on Wednesday for suspected bird flu increasing the number of suspected bird flu patients that had been treated at the hospital so far.
"We have received a report from the RSPI hospital`s director that the hospital had received two new patients - a father and his son - with symptoms of bird flue," Health Minister Siti Fadillah Supari said after breaking the fast with her ministry officials at her residence.
The two patients had been transferred by the Hajj Hospital in East Jakarta to the RSPI Sulianti Saroso hospital after showing bird flu symptoms such as high fever, breathing problems, headache, and a sore throat.
The minister said on a different occasion that the government would not as yet revoke the extraordinary status it had declared in the middle of September in dealing with the disease. She said the status would only be revoked after the country was really free of the disease.
Five people have been declared as having contracted the virus by the World Health Organization`s laboratory in Hong Kong, and three of them had succumbed.
Until this month a total of 44 people in the country have been suspected of having contracted the disease and nine of them have died.
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