INDONESIA - Garut Cluster Part III

[Harriet]

One more suspected birdflu from Cikelet admitted to hospital

http://www.antara.co.id/en/seenws/?id=18739

Bandung (ANTARA News) - One more suspected birdflu patient was admitted at the Hasan Sadikin Hospital here on Wednesday.

The patient, He (21), from Cigado in the subdistrict of Cikelet, Garut, West Java, was admitted at the hospital at around 4.45 pm.

The patient was suffereing from a high fever, cough and breathing problems when he was brought to the hospital.

He was the sixth suspected birdflu patient brought to the hospital.

Six birdflu patients who are currently being treated at the hospital come from the same district.

Two people from the district died recently of the disease.

[FluBossie]

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I think He = that his name is Herman 21 m. from Gunung Sulah, Cigadog in Garut West Java.

[Harriet]

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but most of the cases probably resulted from exposure to sick poultry, the World Health Organization (WHO) said today.

Interesting change in the wording today from WHO.

[FluBossie]

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Yes, I agree.
And if they dont look in other animal species they have to say "probably" all the time.

[Theresa42]

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A thank you from me, also. I have been trying to count cases from Garut in this thread and I failed to see that the two paragraphs were discussing different provinces

Just to clarify, it's not numbers from two different provinces -- it's numbers from (I think) West Java province versus the numbers from Garut regency (a part of West Java province) that were gettin' confused there.

When you said numbers from Bandung, Dr. Niman, does that mean numbers from West Java province totally (I think it must) -- or just numbers of people treated in Bandung hospitals? (Bandung is not a province, but the capital of West Java province.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandung

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Java

[Theresa42]

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Hat-tip, andym!

toggletext-ed from Indonesian:

Take medicine RACIKAN the FATHER, UMAR most FREE BIRD FLU
August 24, 2006

Metrotvnews.com, Garut: Umar, one of the patients that could be stated positive bird flu had finally been stated by the negative. The citizen of the Tipar Village, Garut West Java, that was free from bird flu after drinking the artificial ingredients his parents. Currently, the adolescent 16 years could beraktivitas like usually. He claimed to be his condition at this time was healthy. Hot high that normally is experienced was lost. However, breathless still was felt because of being the illness that had been suffered by him since childhood.

Umar could be treated in the Hospital Doctor Slamet, Garut. However, he was brought came home by his parents after the nurse refused to give medicine for his face [??]. Since coming home from the hospital, Umar only drank the ingredients that was made by his father, Aup. According to Aup, the ingredients that was made by him to umar was the wild animal mixture and natural plants. His composition in part, cobra bile, the porcupine nest, the red rice, turmeric, and several plants kinds. This material was pounded and diseduh to be drunk by Umar.

Originally this ingredients was only used to treat breathless that had been suffered by Umar since childhood. However, evidently could release Umar from the bird flu virus. Aup also sold this medicine costing Rp 50 thousand [ca. US$5.50] per the package.

http://www.metrotvnews.com/berita.asp?id=22812

[Richard McC]

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[QUOTE=Theresa42]Hat-tip, andym!

cobra bile, the porcupine nest, the red rice, turmeric, and several plants kinds


A cure at last!

[JJackson]

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[QUOTE=Richard McC]

Hat-tip, andym!

cobra bile, the porcupine nest, the red rice, turmeric, and several plants kinds


A cure at last!

If you check through this site you will find discussion of the therapeutic benefits of snake venom, red rice, turmeric and several other plants (do not remember seeing anything on porcupines). I wonder why he is using these 'cures'? Perhaps they have been lurking here.

[ruthbeme]

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According to health officials in Indonesia no evidence has been found of human-to-human transmission of H5N1 bird flu in the remote villages of West Java which have witnessed the latest outbreak of the deadly virus.

This has been confirmed by the World Health Organization (WHO).
Two people have died and a third is still ill with the killer virus from villages in Cikelet in the Garut district.
I Nyoman Kandun the health ministry's communicable disease control center director, says investigations have also shown there was no "cluster" cases in the villages.
To date there have been 18 suspected bird flu cases in Cikelet, and five other suspected cases died before swabs were taken to determine the cause of death.
A six-year-old girl was also confirmed positive for H5N1 in Jatiasih district in Bekasi; she developed symptoms on 6 August and was hospitalized on 11 August and remains hospitalized but is recovering.
The source of her infection is currently under investigation and the case takes the nations total for human infection to 62 since June 2005, with 47 fatalities.
Test results are pending for five others receiving medical treatment for symptoms of the disease.
The disease appears to have been brought into Cikelet three months earlier with live chickens purchased from an outside market, and chickens began dying shortly afterwards, with the outbreak spreading through the villages in the area.
Experts are always concerned when there appears to be a cluster of infection occurs i.e. when a group of people are infected from the same source.
Scientists believe cluster cases raise the likelihood of H5N1 mutating into a form easily passed between humans that could spark a global flu pandemic with a the potential to kill millions.
A total of 3,500 poultry had been culled in five areas within a one kilometer radius of Garut and tests have confirmed that half of the poultry were infected by H5N1.
The latest suspected bird flu case is a 61-year-old resident of Cimangke village who is being treated at Hasan Sadikin General Hospital in the West Java capital of Bandung.
It seems many people hide their poultry when government officials come to their houses, despite officials explaining to village and community leaders the importance of the cull.
People are now being offered some compensation for every bird culled and in future the police will accompany inspectors on their rounds.
The Cikelet region of Indonesia`s West Java province is remote and inaccessible and the population have had no experience with the disease, and high-risk behaviors occurred during the disposal of carcasses or the preparation of sick or dead birds for consumption, says the WHO.
In order to contain the virus Indonesian authorities are testing all those who were in contact with the bird flu victims and so far all tests have been returned negative.
The 2,400 people in the area have been provided with Tamiflu, and 2,500 chickens have been culled.
Authorities in Thailand are using a team of 800,000 health volunteers to educate the public about avian influenza and how to prevent it.
The education program will continue for nine days using a door-knock system throughout 30 provinces which have been affected by bird flu.
As the autumnal migration of wild birds begins, governments such as Turkey and the Netherlands are warning their citizens that further avian influenza outbreaks are possible, and that care and diligence should be taken when dealing with dead birds.
As of yesterday, according to the WHO the total number of cases across the world since 2003 are as follows:-

• Azerbaijan 8 cases and 6 deaths,
• Cambodia 6 cases and 6 deaths,
• China 21 cases and 14 deaths,
• Djibouti 1 case,
• Egypt 14 cases and 6 deaths,
• Indonesia 60 cases and 46 deaths,
• Iraq 2 cases and 2 deaths,
• Thailand 24 cases and 16 deaths,
• Turkey 12 cases and 4 deaths,
• Vietnam 94 cases and 42 deaths.

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[Theresa42]

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New Garut cluster thread:

http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/showthread.php?t=9612