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  • Dissertation: Bird Flu Virus in Indonesia had been mutated

    Source: http://health.detik.com/read/2009/12...tasi?993306755

    Selasa, 22/12/2009 16:46 WIB
    Gawat, Virus Flu Burung di Indonesia Sudah Bermutasi
    Nurul Ulfah - detikHealth

    Google translation:

    Tuesday, 22/12/2009 16:46 WIB
    Bad, Bird Flu Virus in Indonesia had been mutated

    Nurul Ulfah - detikHealth

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    Ni Luh Putu Indi D (detikHealth)
    Jakarta, Avian Influenza virus H5N1 (bird flu) have been established in Indonesia's more than five years. Not complete treatment, has emerged a new virus H1N1 (swine flu) that cause pandemics.

    As a result, Avian Influenza from forgotten. And without a lot of people know, there has been a mutation in the bird flu virus in Indonesia. Interestingly is the virus that mutate from birds that routinely vaccinated.

    With the feared effect of this mutation and treatment must be different again in humans. Handling previous vaccine has been proven does not work anymore in poultry.

    It is presented by drh. Ni Luh Putu Dharmayanti Indi, MSI in the trial dissertation at the Faculty of Medicine University of Indonesia when he met detikhealth, Tuesday (22/12/2009), in FKUI Salemba Jakarta.

    According to the vet who earned a doctorate with a 3.97 GPA, if Indonesia is still using the old vaccine strategy for dealing with bird flu there should be evaluation and up date the vaccine routinely at least once every 2 years.

    "Government policy should be evaluated primarily on the farm sector because the sector is derived and mutated virus," said the doctor birth Banyuwangi 1972. Indi currently working as a young researcher in the Department of Virology Central Veterinary Research, Bogor.

    In his study, 20 virus isolates Indi Avian Influenza (AI) H5N1 subtype avian origin from 2003 to 2008, both which have not been vaccinated or vaccinated.

    The results showed that the isolation of the vaccinated poultry mutate just around 6-7 percent annually. Study conducted Dr Indi also showed 62.58 percent of the AI virus from Indonesia had a mutation in the protein.

    AI viruses that emerged in the years 2007-2008 was known more resistant to the virus in amantadin than previous years. This shows that the use of vaccines in Indonesia has been less precise.

    "Indonesian government policies that use local isolates vaccine turning to AI in tackling H5N2 in poultry should be reviewed," criticism of doctoral award winning Indonesian Society of Microbiology as the 2nd Best Paper Award 2009.

    The use of vaccination as one of the nine disease control strategies of bird flu in the farm sector was facing many obstacles. The consequence is the risk of emergence of new viruses for vaccination due to immunological pressure.

    Expected by the study, the government could better focus more on monitoring and Avian Influenza vaccine update. Because if it continues to mutate is likely to produce a more virulent virus and claimed that not a few souls.



    "The above policy makers should listen to scientists and not a lot just playing politics. I know my wife downs in completing this study. But I am proud that my wife can give something very beneficial to Indonesia," said the husband who is a scholar farm , Sutanto Arso Birowo, SPt.

    Indi is also a mother of one of these children get the right gift for his doctoral degree in the day the mother. Achievement which he achieved indicate that a mother can take care of other than her husband and her children, also can contribute their knowledge to progress the nation and state. (Fah / ir)
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