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    Posted: September 07 2006 at 5:04am
Indonesia confirms another human bird flu death
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Posted: 7-Sep-2006 17:30 hrs
Two elderly livestock vendors wait for customers to sell their chickens on a street in Jakarta, September 4. Indonesia has confirmed another person has died of bird flu as the nation hardest-hit by H5N1 continues to battle a disease that experts fear could one day spark a global pandemic.
 
  
Indonesia has confirmed another person has died of bird flu as the nation hardest-hit by H5N1 continues to battle a disease that experts fear could one day spark a global pandemic.
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Indonesia's 47th fatality from the virus was a woman from South Sulawesi province, said Health Minister Siti Fadillah Supari, adding that infected birds had been found dead in the same area.
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"This we know from the results of the (tests by the) Health Ministry's Research and Development Board last night (Wednesday)," Supari told journalists.
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"We did not send (the samples) to the WHO (World Health Organisation) because our positive results are usually positive results at the WHO," she added.
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Up until now, Indonesia has always sent blood and tissue samples from suspected human bird flu cases to a WHO laboratory in Hongkong for confirmation.
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Sari Setiogi, the WHO spokesperson in Indonesia, said that under a new arrangement Jakarta could confirm infections after two local tests showed the person to have contracted H5N1.
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Supari gave no further details other than that the latest bird flu case had been first discovered on June 24.
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Runizar Roesin from the national Bird Flu Center said that the long time between the discovery of the case and the result of the testing was because the samples had not been specifically taken from the patient on suspicion of bird flu.
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The woman had been reported as suffering from high fever by a local doctor in June and a health ministry team took her sample.
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The samples taken by the team were later forwarded to the health ministry's laboratory for bird flu tests.
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Indonesia, the world's fourth most populous nation, is grappling with ongoing outbreaks of H5N1, which has infected 61 people to date, 47 of whom died.
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The minister said that they would soon carry out poultry culling in the area where the case was found. Officials said the local health office was trying to retrace where the latest casualty had come from.
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While the virus does not spread easily among people, the chance of a mutation that would allow it to do so is heightened as more humans catch it from infected birds.
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Scientists fear that if this occurs, a global flu pandemic with a massive death toll could result.
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Indonesia has been criticized for being slow in stamping out the virus at its source among poultry. But the government has said it faces difficulties in funding the culls and paying compensation to poultry owners.
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It said last month that approximately 30 million homes keep chickens in their backyards and that in some instances, many people refused to turn in their birds despite compensation offers. — AFP
 
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Global fears rise in battle against bird flu

    September 07 2006 at 01:45PM

Jakarta - Indonesia confirmed another person had died of bird flu as the nation hardest-hit by H5N1 continues to battle a disease that experts fear could one day spark a global pandemic.

Indonesia's 47th fatality from the virus was a woman called Akira from South Sulawesi province, said Health Minister Siti Fadillah Supari, adding that infected birds had been found dead in the same area.

"This we know from the results of the (tests by the) Health Ministry's Research and Development Board last night (Wednesday)," Supari told journalists.

"We did not send (the samples) to the WHO (World Health Organisation) because our positive results are usually positive results at the WHO," she added.

Up until now, Indonesia has always sent blood and tissue samples from suspected human bird flu cases to a WHO laboratory in Hong Kong for confirmation.

Sari Setiogi, the WHO spokesperson in Indonesia, said that under a new arrangement Jakarta could confirm infections after two local tests showed the person to have contracted H5N1.

Supari gave no further details other than that the latest bird flu case had been first discovered on June 24.

Indonesia, the world's fourth most populous nation, is grappling with ongoing outbreaks of H5N1, which has infected 61 people to date, 47 of them with fatal consequences.

The minister said that they would soon carry out poultry culling in the area where the case was found.

"We will soon do "stamping out", because they found dead birds in the area," Supari said.

While the virus does not spread easily among people, the chance of a mutation occurring which will allow it to do so is heightened as more humans catch it from infected birds.

Scientists fear that if this occurs, a global flu pandemic with a massive death toll could result.

Indonesia has been criticised for its slowness in stamping out the virus at its source - among poultry. But the government has said that it was facing difficulties in funds to conduct cullings and pay compensation to poultry owners.

It said last month that approximately 30 million homes keep chickens in their backyards and in some instances, many refused to turn in their birds despite offers of compensation. - Sapa-AFP
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Originally posted by July July wrote:

Global fears rise in battle against bird flu
 
Crikey!  This story is loaded with scary stuff.
 


"We did not send (the samples) to the WHO (World Health Organisation) because our positive results are usually positive results at the WHO," she added.

 
This change in protocol surely will not help matters.

Up until now, Indonesia has always sent blood and tissue samples from suspected human bird flu cases to a WHO laboratory in Hong Kong for confirmation.
I would argue that statement

Sari Setiogi, the WHO spokesperson in Indonesia, said that under a new arrangement Jakarta could confirm infections after two local tests showed the person to have contracted H5N1.

Supari gave no further details other than that the latest bird flu case had been first discovered on June 24.
It is not very reassuring that their new tests take over 2 1/2 months to get results

Indonesia has been criticised for its slowness in stamping out the virus at its source - among poultry. But the government has said that it was facing difficulties in funds to conduct cullings and pay compensation to poultry owners.

It said last month that approximately 30 million homes keep chickens in their backyards and in some instances, many refused to turn in their birds despite offers of compensation.
 
Reading the last statement we have 30 million homes and given 2 adults and 1 child per home minimum we have nearly 100 million people up close and personal with their very own stock of chickens who apparently wil not be compensated for handing over thier sick chickens.  The million to one odds of avain going pandemic somehow now seems more like 50/50 odds with the way Indo is handling this problem.
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[QUOTE=KevO]    DUP post
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This post is about the teenage girl that died in June
 
 
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Indonesia's 47th fatality from the virus was a woman called Akira from South Sulawesi province
 
Is this the same person?
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There are different reports about this death, one says it's a boy, another says, girl and another says woman, but I think it's the same case.
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Wait a minute.  Indonesia isn't going to send the sample to anyone?  That makes me wonder two things.  One, uh....we don't need to sequence anymore?  If so, how did they come to that conclusion especially with such scrutiny right now?  Two, maybe it mutated into something easily transmissable and they know it.  Probably not that but......
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Spread of bird flu virus in N Sumatra still worrying

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Medan, North Sumatra, (ANTARA News) - The spread of the bird flu (avian influenza) virus in North Sumatra is still worrying despite the cull of some 73,096 poultry in the province recently, a provincial government official said.

The poultry cull was intended to break the chain of the HN51 virus` transmition, a spokesman of the North Sumatra Administration said here on Wednesday.

Of the total 73,096 culled poultry, some 37,458 were in Karo District, 20,012 in Simalungun, 14,727 in Dairi and 899 in Deli Serdang District.

For every chicken or bird culled, the government provided compensation worth Rp12,500 each.

Bird flu cases have occurred in 16 districts out of the total 25 districts in North Sumatra up to August 2006.

Among the affected districts are Deli Serdang, Binjai, Dairi, Medan, Tebing Tinggi, Langkat, Samosir, Serdang Bedagai, Simalungun, Tapanuli Selatan, Tapanuli Utara, Toba Samosir, Mandailing Natal, Humbang Hasundutan, and Kabupaten Karo.

The bird flu virus infection has badly affected the poultry business in the province.

A total of 10 nations have detected outbreaks of the animal disease in humans. Indonesia had reported some 67 cases, the highest figure in the world. Indonesia`s Ministry of Health recently reported the country`s 43rd death resulting from infection with the H5N1 avian influenza virus.

Like the vast majority of other human cases detected throughout the region, contact with ailing chickens around the household is the apparent means by which the latest human case occurred.

Human cases appeared for the first time in Indonesia in 2005.(*)
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Avian influenza – situation in Indonesia – update 30

8 September 2006

The Ministry of Health in Indonesia has confirmed a new case of human infection with the H5N1 avian influenza virus. The case is a 14-year-old female from Makassar, South Sulawesi Province. She developed symptoms on 18 June, was hospitalized on 23 June and died on 24 June. The case had contact with poultry near her home. This case was detected through the Ministry’s routine influenza surveillance system.

In addition to the above case and following the recent revision of case definitions for H5N1 infection, WHO is adding two cases in Indonesia, dating back to June and November of 2005. Inclusion of these two cases now aligns figures given for Indonesia in the WHO cumulative table of laboratory-confirmed cases with those officially issued by the Ministry of Health. Prior to the revision, the cases did not meet the WHO case definition for serologically confirmed avian influenza H5N1 infection.

The first retrospectively confirmed case was an 8-year-old female from Tangerang in Banten Province. She developed symptoms on 24 June 2005 and died on 14 July 2005. She was part of a family cluster reported to WHO in July 2005.

The second retrospectively confirmed case is a 45-year-old male from Magelang, Central Java Province. He developed symptoms on 25 November 2005 following direct contact with diseased poultry and subsequently recovered.

The retrospectively confirmed cases bring the total in Indonesia to 63. Of these cases, 48 have been fatal.
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