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Posted: January 08 2007 at 5:22am |
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Indonesian woman with bird flu in critical condition, health official says
The Associated Press Monday, January 8, 2007
An Indonesian woman was in critical condition Monday after being hospitalized with bird flu, a health official said. It was unclear how she contracted the virus. The 37-year-old is the second person to be sickened by the disease in less than a week, said I Nyoman Kandun, the Ministry of Health's director general of communicable disease control. The other was a 14-year-old boy, Kandun said, adding that both are from the industrial city of Tangerang on the western outskirts of the capital, Jakarta, and are being treated at the Persahabatan hospital. The woman hospitalized Monday, identified only as Ria, "is now in critical condition," said Kandun. "We are still trying to track down the source of infection," he said. Indonesia has reported 76 people infected with the deadly H5N1 bird flu strain, and 57 of them have died — more than a third of the world's total — since the disease began ravaging Asian poultry stocks in 2003. International experts have accused Indonesia's government of not doing enough to tackle the virus, which they fear may mutate into a form that could spread easily between humans and potentially kill millions around the world. However, the number of infections and deaths has dropped sharply in the past three months — a situation partly attributed to a national campaign to increase public awareness and vaccinate poultry. |
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http://www.avianflutalk.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=14106
Posted on the above link . wonder if she is one of the six patients .
A bird flu patient found in Persahabatan Hospital, Jakarta
JAKARTA (JP): One patient in Persahabatan Hospital was declared Monday of being infected with bird flu virus, while six patients were still suspected of suffering the fatal disease. |
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Albert
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I wouldn't believe any first hand reports coming from the Jakarta Post. I doubt we will hear any more about the 6 suspected. Now this new particular case is obviously quite different. The fact that she is already in critical also doesn’t bode well for the outcome. |
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This isnt good mayby??
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Hmmm send in ? Gee thought they would have moved in years ago ......
The first cases of avian influenza began on December 6, but the government's official report of the outbreaks was not issued until December 19. The government has criticized officials in Ca Mau and Bac Lieu provinces for not reacting more quickly to the outbreaks.
In December, avian influenza broke out in three southern Vietnamese provinces. Although Vietnam has a record of acting quickly to halt outbreaks of the virus, this time, farmers were reluctant to inform the government, slowing containment efforts. Matt Steinglass has more from Hanoi. Vietnamese animal health authorities say they have destroyed 24,000 birds so far in Ca Mau, Bac Lieu, and An Giang provinces in an effort to stop the H5N1 flu virus from spreading. Officials at the World Health Organization and the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization are talking with the Vietnamese government to send experts to investigate the source of the outbreaks. Aphaluck Bhatiasevi is a spokeswoman for the FAO's Hanoi office. She says a few outbreaks are to be expected, but that more information is needed to determine how the virus has spread. "The recent outbreak is not surprising, because we know that the virus is still present," she said. "The information that we've got so far is that the recent outbreaks were triggered as a result of the illegal raising of ducks." The government has banned farmers from breeding ducks. But experts say many farmers ignore the ban. The H5N1 virus can kill thousands of birds in a few days if unchecked. It also can infect humans and is responsible for more than 150 human deaths worldwide since 2003. Almost all human victims caught the disease by handling sick birds, but scientists fear the virus could mutate so that it spreads easily among people. That could set off a flu pandemic that would sicken millions of people. Some international organizations have held Vietnam up as a model for other developing nations coping with bird flu. A year ago, officials vaccinated tens of millions of chickens across the country, and culled millions more to halt outbreaks. Patrice Gautier, the head of Veterinarians Without Borders' Vietnam office, says the government is still doing a good job. "Even if we have outbreaks now in Vietnam, I don't expect them to spread a lot," she said. "The veterinary services in Vietnam have now the capacity to identify and act much quicker than they did in the first wave. The challenge is not to prevent the first one, because it's impossible. The challenge is really to limit the spread of the first one and the second one." Gautier says the issue in the recent outbreaks was not the central government's control efforts, but getting rural residents to tell the government sooner about outbreaks. Many farmers are reluctant to inform the government, because they do not want their flocks culled. The first cases of avian influenza began on December 6, but the government's official report of the outbreaks was not issued until December 19. The government has criticized officials in Ca Mau and Bac Lieu provinces for not reacting more quickly to the outbreaks. Hoang Van Nam, vice director of Vietnam's Department of Animal Health, says An Giang Province has done a better job. Nam says Ca Mau and Bac Lieu were a week late in reporting their initial outbreaks. He says it was the farmers who failed to report their sick birds, and that local officials reacted quickly when they learned of the problem. Gautier says Vietnam has gotten progressively better at containing avian influenza outbreaks. But it will take time for every Vietnamese farmer to get the message that they are better off reporting their sick birds to the authorities than hiding them. |
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We know that experts, are very close by the hot spots.
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"...Medical Research Unit #2 (NAMRU-2) began operations in Indonesia in 1970..."
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from their web site...
The transfer of the Biosafety Level 3 Laboratory to NAMRU-2 Jakarta gives this command a state-of-the-art containment facility that exceeds all current requirements for work with biosafety level 3 pathogens.
This facility will allow NAMRU-2 personnel to work safely, both at the lab bench and with experimental animals, with samples from patients with hemorrhagic fever of unknown origin and such regionally important agents as Rickettsia, Japanese B Encephalitia Virus and Hantaan Virus.
It will also provide the needed biocontainment for proposed field programs to survey for emerging diseases in Indonesia.
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another site...
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I was impressed with the number of facilities here in Africa... (WHO 2003)
and...
As of December 22, 2006.....
A map of H5N1 in poultry and wild birds since 2003....
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... http://content.nejm.org/content/vol355/issue21/images/large/03f1.jpeg
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Albert
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The six are not a "cluster" because they will most likely be neg. Please don't tell me someone wrote a commentary on the 6 suspected.
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JAKARTA (Reuters) - A 37-year-old woman has tested positive for bird flu in Indonesia and is being treated in a hospital on the outskirts of the capital, a Health Ministry official said on Tuesday. The case comes after a 14-year-old boy tested positive for bird flu at the weekend, the country's first new infection in almost two months. Joko Suyono, an official at the ministry's bird flu centre, told Reuters the woman from Serpong town in western Java had bought a live chicken and slaughtered it at her house, but it was unclear whether this was the cause of the infection. He said the woman had been taken to hospital in Tangerang, west of Jakarta, after she suffered high fever and breathing difficulties on January 1.
"The test results came last night and showed she is positive with bird flu," Suyono said. The world's fourth most populous nation, Indonesia has the world's highest bird flu death toll. World Health Organisation (WHO) figures show 57 people have died across this vast country of 17,000 islands where millions of chickens roam backyards freely. The government has announced plans to ramp up its fight against the virus and hopes to beat it by the end of 2007, but critics say public ignorance, official ineptitude and lack of money are hampering efforts to stamp out the disease. People can contract the virus by coming into contact with infected poultry, but experts fear it could mutate into a form that can pass easily among humans, possibly killing millions. The virus has killed 157 people since 2003 and has spread from Asia to Europe, the Middle East and Africa, WHO says. |
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Albert
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What I find interesting is that we've had 5 confirmed human cases in the last 3 weeks, three of which happened in different locations and are not related to one another. "If" we see a couple more human infections over the next 30 days, it could be an indication that h5 is becoming slightly more adaptable. |
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Indonesian woman tests positive for bird flu
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From Jan 9
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=21362 Second case of total of three reported as of Jan11 |
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5:20 EST jan 11 update
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601080&sid=aJ7D8MV7D1aw&refer=asia Bird Flu May Have Infected Relatives of Indonesian H5N1 Patient By Karima Anjani Jan. 11 (Bloomberg) -- Two family members of a woman infected with bird flu in Indonesia were hospitalized with symptoms of the virus, said a doctor treating the patients. The 37-year-old woman, who tested positive for the H5N1 strain of avian influenza two days ago, remains in critical condition at Persahabatan Hospital in Jakarta, Mukhtar Ikhsan, a doctor at the hospital, said today. Her 42-year-old husband and their 18-year-old son have symptoms of fever and respiratory infection, and are being tested for H5N1. ``They're showing symptoms similar to bird flu and we must remain vigilant,'' Ikhsan said in a telephone interview. Tests for H5N1 are also being run on two other people receiving treatment at the hospital, he said. Health officials monitor suspected clusters of cases closely because they may signal the virus is becoming more adept at infecting humans, not just birds. Indonesia has reported 58 human H5N1 fatalities, 16 more than any other country. The Southeast Asian nation attracted international attention in May when seven members of a family from the island of Sumatra contracted the H5N1 virus, six of them fatally. The cases represented the largest reported cluster of infections and the first laboratory-proven instance of human-to-human transmission. The H5N1 strain is known to have infected 264 people in 10 countries since 2003, killing 157 of them, the World Health Organization said yesterday. The latest confirmed case in Indonesia may have been caused by contact with a diseased bird. The woman slaughtered a chicken she bought from a local market, I Nyoman Kandun, the ministry's director general of disease control and environment, said on Jan. 9. The woman, from Tangerang in Banten province on the western part of the island of Java, developed symptoms on Jan. 1 and was hospitalized on Jan. 6. ``Initial investigations suggest sick poultry as the possible source of infection,'' the Geneva-based WHO said Jan. 9 in a statement on its Web site. To contact the reporter on this story: Karima Anjani in Jakarta at kanjani@bloomberg.net Last Updated: January 11, 2007 05:20 EST |
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death of 14-year-old boy.
http://www.health24.com/news/Flu_Influenza/1-912,38864.asp |
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