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**Commonground** · September 24, 2006, 05:29 AM

Re: Indonesian boy dies of bird flu -official

Dr. Niman, have we been tracking this boy?

**HenryN** · September 24, 2006, 05:33 AM

Re: Indonesian boy dies of bird flu -official

Indonesia confirms 51st bird flu death
AFP
Sunday, September 24, 2006 15:07 IST

http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?NewsID=1054870

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The boy died on September 12 and test results from two laboratories confirmed he was infected with the H5N1 virus, a doctor on duty at the national bird flu centre in Jakarta, said.

The boy died shortly after he was admitted to the Sulianti Saroso hospital, the capital's main center for bird flu treatment, said the doctor, who declined to be named.

The latest death brought the overall toll in Indonesia from H5N1 to 51.

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**HenryN** · September 24, 2006, 05:34 AM

Re: Indonesian boy dies of bird flu -official

Originally posted by Commonground

Dr. Niman, have we been tracking this boy?

No, media in Jakarta appear to be only covering confirmed cases.

**HenryN** · September 24, 2006, 05:42 AM

Re: Indonesian boy dies of bird flu -official

JAKARTA (Reuters) - A nine-year-old Indonesian boy has died of bird flu, an official of the health ministry's bird flu information centre said on Sunday, taking the country's death toll from the disease to 51.

The boy died on Friday at a hospital in Jakarta, Runizar Ruesin, the head of the centre, told Reuters by phone.

"The result came out this morning. It has been confirmed positive," he said.
The boy, a resident of Ciputat Raya in South Jakarta, had suffered from fever, cough, runny nose and pneumonia after he began to get sick on Sept. 13, Ruesin said.

The boy was said to have had contact with a sick bird. Most human cases are known to have followed such contacts.

His death comes after the health ministry said on Friday that bird flu killed an 11-year-old boy from East Java province. The boy died last week after chickens died around his house. The ministry said it was sending a team to investigate the case.

Indonesia has the highest bird flu death toll of any nation. Not including the deaths of the two boys, the H5N1 avian flu virus has killed 144 people worldwide, the World Health Organisation says.

The virus mainly affects birds but experts fear it could mutate into a strain capable of killing millions of people in a global pandemic.

Indonesia has been criticised for not doing enough to combat the disease, endemic in birds in most of the provinces in the archipelago of 17,000 islands, the world's largest.

The United Nations bird flu coordinator, David Nabarro, said this month that Indonesia had made progress in its fight against bird flu.

But he expressed disappointment at the slow flow of funds pledged by international donors to Indonesia for the effort.

http://in.today.reuters.com/News/new...a-269075-1.xml

**HenryN** · September 24, 2006, 06:14 AM

Re: Indonesian boy dies of bird flu -official

Commentary at

Another Fatal H5N1 Bird Flu Case in Jakarta Indonesia

http://www.recombinomics.com/News/09240601/H5N1_South_Jakarta.html

Recombinomics Commentary

**HenryN** · September 24, 2006, 06:43 AM

Re: Indonesian boy dies of bird flu -official

Originally posted by niman

JAKARTA (Reuters) -
The boy, a resident of Ciputat Raya in South Jakarta, had suffered from fever, cough, runny nose and pneumonia after he began to get sick on Sept. 13,
http://in.today.reuters.com/News/new...a-269075-1.xml

Runny nose and H5N1 is not a good combination.

**Mellie** · September 24, 2006, 08:27 AM

Re: Indonesian boy [from Jakarta area] dies of bird flu - official

Another Fatal H5N1 Bird Flu Case in Jakarta Indonesia

http://www.recombinomics.com/News/09240601/H5N1_South_Jakarta.html

Recombinomics Commentary

<big><big>Commentary</big></big>

Another Fatal H5N1 Bird Flu Case in Jakarta Indonesia
Recombinomics Commentary
September 24, 2006

The boy, a resident of Ciputat Raya in South Jakarta, had suffered from fever, cough, runny nose and pneumonia after he began to get sick on Sept. 13, Ruesin said.

The boy was said to have had contact with a sick bird. Most human cases are known to have followed such contacts.

The above wire service comments describe the most recent confirmed cases in Indonesia. Like the vast majority of confirmed cases, the patient is from the Jakarta area. All but one human H5N1 bird flu isolate from the Jakarta area have a novel cleavage site. This novel cleavage site has not been reported in any poultry from the Jakarta area, even though human cases have been reported for well over a year, beginning in July, 2005. The only Java bird isolate with the cleavage site was from Indramyu, but that isolate match a very small subset of human isolates.

The failure to match the human H5N1 to poultry is cause for concern, as are the misleading wire service reports, couple with WHO updates.

These reports continue to misinform the general public on the source of the H5N1 human infections in Indonesia.

**Theresa42** · September 24, 2006, 08:34 AM

Re: Indonesian boy [from Jakarta area] dies of bird flu - official

Indonesia confirms 51st bird flu death

Weekend ? September 24, 2006

A nine-year-old boy has been confirmed as Indonesia's 51st human bird flu fatality, a health ministry official said.

The boy died on September 22 and test results from two laboratories confirmed he was infected with the H5N1 virus, a doctor on duty at the national bird flu center in Jakarta told AFP Sunday.

He identified the laboratories as the ministry of health's laboratory and that of the US Naval Medical Research Unit (Namru).

The boy died shortly after he was admitted to the Sulianti Saroso hospital, the capital's main center for bird flu treatment, said the doctor, who declined to be named.

The latest death brought the overall toll in Indonesia from H5N1 to 51, the highest reported anywhere in the world.

Tests from two laboratories are required for the World Health Organization to count the fatality in its official toll.

The boy, who came from Pondok Pinang in South Jakarta spent two days at a police hospital [?] before he was moved to Sulianti Saroso, the doctor said.

He could not immediately provide more details, including whether the victim had come into contact with sick poultry, the usual method of transmission of the virus.

But he said the boy's family had informed doctors that the boy had already been under high fever for about a week before he was admitted to hospital.

Indonesia's death toll from bird flu has been steadily rising as the virus has marched across the archipelago nation, spreading to 29 of its 33 provinces.

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.

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

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http://www.todayonline.com/articles/144518.asp

**Commonground** · September 24, 2006, 08:58 AM

Re: Indonesian boy [from Jakarta area] dies of bird flu - official

From post immediately above:

The boy, who came from Pondok Pinang in South Jakarta

This is a different name than in the earlier article. I'll try to research this place. Didn't have any luck with: "The boy, a resident of Ciputat Raya in South Jakarta".

I think we've had other cases from Pondok Pinang - name is ringing a bell?

**hawkeye** · September 24, 2006, 09:19 AM

Re: Indonesian boy [from Jakarta area] dies of bird flu - official

66th???

Indonesia Records 66th Bird Flu Death

The WHO has confirmed that an Indonesian boyis the 66 human to to die of the deadly bird flu virus in Indonesia - the highest total anywhere in the world

An 11-year-old Indonesian boy who died just hours after being admitted to an East Java hospital this week tested positive for bird flu, bringing the country’s fatalities from the H5N1 virus to 50, a senior health official said Friday.

The boy, from Tulung Agung village in East Java province, had been in contact with sick chickens prior to becoming ill on September 16, said I Nyoman Kandun, director general of disease control for the Indonesian Health Ministry.

“He was admitted to the hospital on the morning of the 18th and died that night,” Kandun told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa, adding that laboratory results confirmed the boy had contracted bird flu.

The boy was the 66th confirmed bird-flu case and 50th fatality in Indonesia, which has the world’s highest death toll.

Nearly all of Indonesia’s victims have had direct or indirect contact with chickens, but scientists said they worry that the virus could mutate into a form easily transmitted from human to human, sparking a global pandemic that could kill millions of people.

The highly pathogenic virus among poultry has spread to 29 of Indonesia’s 33 provinces since being discovered here in 2003, killing millions of birds.

**HenryN** · September 24, 2006, 09:35 AM

Re: Indonesian boy [from Jakarta area] dies of bird flu - official

Originally posted by hawkeye

66th???

Indonesia Records 66th Bird Flu Death

The WHO has confirmed that an Indonesian boyis the 66 human to to die of the deadly bird flu virus in Indonesia - the highest total anywhere in the world

An 11-year-old Indonesian boy who died just hours after being admitted to an East Java hospital this week tested positive for bird flu, bringing the country?s fatalities from the H5N1 virus to 50, a senior health official said Friday.

The boy, from Tulung Agung village in East Java province, had been in contact with sick chickens prior to becoming ill on September 16, said I Nyoman Kandun, director general of disease control for the Indonesian Health Ministry.

?He was admitted to the hospital on the morning of the 18th and died that night,? Kandun told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa, adding that laboratory results confirmed the boy had contracted bird flu.

The boy was the 66th confirmed bird-flu case and 50th fatality in Indonesia, which has the world?s highest death toll.

Nearly all of Indonesia?s victims have had direct or indirect contact with chickens, but scientists said they worry that the virus could mutate into a form easily transmitted from human to human, sparking a global pandemic that could kill millions of people.

The highly pathogenic virus among poultry has spread to 29 of Indonesia?s 33 provinces since being discovered here in 2003, killing millions of birds.

See text above.

**HenryN** · September 24, 2006, 09:38 AM

Re: Indonesian boy [from Jakarta area] dies of bird flu - official

Originally posted by Commonground

From post immediately above:

The boy, who came from Pondok Pinang in South Jakarta

This is a different name than in the earlier article. I'll try to research this place. Didn't have any luck with: "The boy, a resident of Ciputat Raya in South Jakarta".

I think we've had other cases from Pondok Pinang - name is ringing a bell?

There have been many cases from the Jakarta area, including south Jakarta, but I don't think this particular neighborhood has been mentioned (and I haven't seen any significant indication that more than one 9M died recently from H5N1 in the area).

**Theresa42** · September 24, 2006, 10:28 AM

Re: Indonesian boy [from Jakarta area] dies of bird flu - official

Just a quick note to point out that this report is about the boy who died in Tunlungagung, East Java -- not the boy from Jakarta. Just so we don't get confused.

Originally posted by hawkeye

66th???

Indonesia Records 66th Bird Flu Death

The WHO has confirmed that an Indonesian boyis the 66 human to to die of the deadly bird flu virus in Indonesia - the highest total anywhere in the world

An 11-year-old Indonesian boy who died just hours after being admitted to an East Java hospital this week tested positive for bird flu, bringing the country?s fatalities from the H5N1 virus to 50, a senior health official said Friday.

The boy, from Tulung Agung village in East Java province, had been in contact with sick chickens prior to becoming ill on September 16, said I Nyoman Kandun, director general of disease control for the Indonesian Health Ministry.

?He was admitted to the hospital on the morning of the 18th and died that night,? Kandun told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa, adding that laboratory results confirmed the boy had contracted bird flu.

The boy was the 66th confirmed bird-flu case and 50th fatality in Indonesia, which has the world?s highest death toll.

Nearly all of Indonesia?s victims have had direct or indirect contact with chickens, but scientists said they worry that the virus could mutate into a form easily transmitted from human to human, sparking a global pandemic that could kill millions of people.

The highly pathogenic virus among poultry has spread to 29 of Indonesia?s 33 provinces since being discovered here in 2003, killing millions of birds.

**Commonground** · September 24, 2006, 10:50 AM

Re: Indonesian boy [from Jakarta area] dies of bird flu - official

Hawkeye #11:

Statistical Chart out of Indo for cases from JULY 2005 to Sept. 21, 2006.
Click on the first link. PDF File.
Jumlah kasus penyebaran flu burung di Indonesia s/d tanggal 21 September 2006
FLU_BURUNG_21_09_2006.pdf

http://tinyurl.com/gexqj

It?s interesting how they write that up. 65 confirmed. (49 died). 156 cases under investigation (43 died)