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Suspected bird flu cases on rise across the country (Indonesia)
The Jakarta Post ^ | March 4th, 2006 | Wahyoe Wardhana, et al

Posted on 03/03/2006 10:33:02 AM PST by Termite_Commander

Suspected bird flu cases are being detected in the country at an alarming rate, with more people falling sick in Surakarta in Central Java, Madiun and Malang in East Java and Batam in Riau Islands province.

An as-yet unnamed 12-year-old girl suspected of contracting bird flu died Wednesday night after being treated at the Moewardi Hospital in Surakarta.

Her body has been sent to her hometown in Boyolali, Central Java, for burial, hospital director Mardiatmo told Antara.

Blood tests for the victim have been sent to a Jakarta laboratory for confirmation.

Another seriously ill suspected bird flu patient is being treated in isolation at the hospital.

"Clinical symptoms, including coughing and a high fever, indicate that he is bird flu-positive. The patient also used to live near large-scale quail breeding centers," Tri Lastiti, the deputy director of the hospital, told The Jakarta Post.

The 31-year-old man, identified as Daryoto, was believed to have been infected by the carcasses of dead birds, which had been dumped in the area during the past month.

"Thousands of quails died every day and their remains were just thrown away into a nearby river," Nanik, Daryoto's wife, said.

Central Java Governor Mardiyanto said earlier the provincial administration would launch a large-scale poultry cull of infected birds. The culls would occur in five of the province's 35 regencies -- Karanganyar, Boyolali, Sukoharjo, Sragen and Klaten.

Mardiyanto ordered people to be on the alert for the virus and immediately report any suspected bird flu outbreaks among poultry to their local animal husbandry office.

"If people see scores of chickens dying, they should report this to the nearest office. Animal husbandry and health officials will soon follow up their reports," Mardiyanto said.

In Bandung, the number of suspected bird flu patients rose by 11 to 66 as of Wednesday. The latest patient was admitted to the city's Hasan Sadikin Hospital on Wednesday.

In Madiun, East Java, the condition of a 12-year-old patient from Singkil village, Ponorogo, who is believed to be infected with the virus, remained serious.

"The patient is still in intensive care by our team of doctors, and cannot be visited yet," a Dr. Soedono Hospital spokesman said Thursday. A sample of the patient's blood has been sent to Jakarta for testing and the results would be available within a week, the spokesman said.

In Malang, a seven-year-old boy was admitted to the intensive care unit at the Saiful Anwar Hospital with suspected bird flu symptoms.

However, Gatoet Ismanoe, a doctor of the hospital, said the boy, who had earlier been treated at the Muhammad Saleh Hospital in Probolinggo, was still under observation to determine his illness.

In Batam, the local animal husbandry office sprayed disinfectant at Panglong village in Nongsa district Thursday, after laboratory tests found bird flu in the area's poultry.

At least eight chickens were found dead in the area with blue and swollen heads -- recognizable symptoms of the flu.

(With additional reporting from Suherdjoko in Semarang, Blontank Poer in Surakarta and Yuli Tri Suwarni in Bandung).


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: avianinfluenza; h5n1; indonesia

1 posted on 03/03/2006 10:33:05 AM PST by Termite_Commander
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To: Termite_Commander

*sniff* Can't get too worked up over it.


2 posted on 03/03/2006 10:42:54 AM PST by Dallas59 ((“You love life, while we love death"( Al-Qaeda & Democratic Party))
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To: Termite_Commander
Shhhhh.....

It's all part of Rove's plan....

AIDs, Bird Flu, Crack Cocaine and even the anti Mohammed cartoons...

It's all part of the plan to motivate the "undesirables" to destroy themselves....setting Muslim against Muslim, black crack gang against black crack gang, homo and drug addict killing their fellow homos and drug addicts... the rest of the turd world will be annihilated by the bird flu....

The plan is coming together.....

</sarcasm>

Semper fi
3 posted on 03/03/2006 10:44:53 AM PST by river rat (You may turn the other cheek, but I prefer to look into my enemy's vacant dead eyes.)
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To: Termite_Commander
And another piece of Extended News...


Doctors fear latest human-to-human bird-flu cases


The two latest confirmed cases of human bird flu in Thailand might be human-to-human transmissions, a senior health official said yesterday.

Dr Charoen Chuchottaworn, a bird-flu expert at the Public Health Ministry’s Department of Medical Services, said doctors concluded after reviewing the history of the past two cases that both victims presented very mild symptoms of avian influenza and neither had any physical contact with chickens or birds.

One of the victims was a boy in Bangkok and the other was an 18-year-old man from Nonthaburi province.

This left doctors no clues as to where the patients became infected with the H5N1 virus and showed that the avian influenza had moved from causing severe human infection to milder cases.

Charoen, who is also a member of the national committee issuing guidelines for the treatment of avian influenza, was speaking at the Joint International Tropical Medicine Meeting 2005 in Bangkok.

Dr Kamnuan Ungchusak, director of the Epidemiology Bureau, challenged Charoen’s assertion about human-to-human transmissions.

He told The Nation that while neither of the patients had direct contact with chickens, they lived in an environment where the virus was prevalent.

“Chickens were dying near their homes and chicken droppings were everywhere around their neighbourhood,” he said.

“They might have contracted the virus through contaminated soil.”

Dr Charoen said that the milder the symptoms, the harder it is for doctors to diagnose. This means that a lot more advanced laboratory facilities are needed with a testing technique called RT-PCR to confirm cases and decide if patients should be treated with antiviral Tamiflu (oseltamivir phosphate).

He said this meant that avian influenza could become asymptomatic now.

The only tool available in Thailand to fight H5N1 infections at the moment is insufficient, he said. At present, Thailand has about a million capsules (for 100,000 treatments) of Tamiflu, but it is estimated that about 120 million capsules of the drug will be needed.

In the past, only severe cases of human bird flu have been detected in Thailand simply because patients went to hospital for treatment. But doctors believe that there have been many cases with mild symptoms of the disease.

“We believe that this is the tip of the iceberg,” he said.

Signs of possible human-to-human transmission were closely observed in Vietnam, where 10 clusters of probable human transmissions were detected in which the victims had no contact with infected poultry, Charoen said.

Thailand and Indonesia had one official cluster, he said, but the Indonesian cluster showed clear-cut evidence because a child contracted H5N1 without going to an infected area, as her father had.

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4 posted on 03/03/2006 10:58:14 AM PST by Termite_Commander (Warning: Cynical Right-winger Ahead)
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To: river rat
You forgot Rumsveldt's (the real spelling of the last name) super secret pharmaceutical company that has the vaccine but is holding it back to illuminate his friends and eliminate his enemies and make squillions of dollars....
5 posted on 03/03/2006 11:00:47 AM PST by joesnuffy (A camel once bit our sister..but we knew just what to do...we gathered rocks and squashed her!)
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To: joesnuffy

WOW!
That must have carried a Secrecy Level beyond my clearance...

Shhhhhhh......

Semper Fi


6 posted on 03/03/2006 3:45:17 PM PST by river rat (You may turn the other cheek, but I prefer to look into my enemy's vacant dead eyes.)
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