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Sunday, January 17, 2010 20:33:37 pm
AFP - Boyolali District Health Office, wary of patients who got the flu, following hundreds of birds found dead suddenly from a virus of bird flu (avian influenza, AI), in District Ampel.
"We ask the health workers at health center for more vigilant Boyolali. If seeing patients with flu should not underestimated," said Chief Boyolali District health office, dr. Yulianto Prabowo, in Boyolali, Sunday.
According to Yulianto, with the birds that tested positive for bird flu infected (AI) through quick tests, it did not rule it can spread to humans.
Yulianto explained, if the health workers in health centers to find the person with the flu should not be underestimated and the patient alerted early on.
"Patients who have the flu that can be traced further. Do they have contact with poultry that died suddenly or not," he said.
According to Yulianto, if health workers know there is flu sufferers, do not immediately assume that the common cold. "The notion of the common cold sufferers need to be changed, linked in chickens died and tested positive for bird flu," he said.
Meanwhile, the Department of Animal Husbandry and Fisheries Boyolali, some time ago stated that hundreds of chickens died in Hamlet Semampir, Village Temple, Ampel, positive bird flu. Local residents have been destroyed by burning and backfilled with soil.
However, the health office himself until now, no mass inspection to local residents because of the virus in birds has yet to spread to humans.
According to Yulianto, health office will conduct more intensive examinations, if any residents are vurus infected.
"Based on the investigation while it was found that no spread of AI virus to humans in the area," he said.
However, it has increased vigilance because of the bird flu virus spread not only in endemic areas or poultry that died of the virus.
Spread of the virus can occur due to the high mobility of a person to endemic areas, he said. s
AFP - Boyolali District Health Office, wary of patients who got the flu, following hundreds of birds found dead suddenly from a virus of bird flu (avian influenza, AI), in District Ampel.
"We ask the health workers at health center for more vigilant Boyolali. If seeing patients with flu should not underestimated," said Chief Boyolali District health office, dr. Yulianto Prabowo, in Boyolali, Sunday.
According to Yulianto, with the birds that tested positive for bird flu infected (AI) through quick tests, it did not rule it can spread to humans.
Yulianto explained, if the health workers in health centers to find the person with the flu should not be underestimated and the patient alerted early on.
"Patients who have the flu that can be traced further. Do they have contact with poultry that died suddenly or not," he said.
According to Yulianto, if health workers know there is flu sufferers, do not immediately assume that the common cold. "The notion of the common cold sufferers need to be changed, linked in chickens died and tested positive for bird flu," he said.
Meanwhile, the Department of Animal Husbandry and Fisheries Boyolali, some time ago stated that hundreds of chickens died in Hamlet Semampir, Village Temple, Ampel, positive bird flu. Local residents have been destroyed by burning and backfilled with soil.
However, the health office himself until now, no mass inspection to local residents because of the virus in birds has yet to spread to humans.
According to Yulianto, health office will conduct more intensive examinations, if any residents are vurus infected.
"Based on the investigation while it was found that no spread of AI virus to humans in the area," he said.
However, it has increased vigilance because of the bird flu virus spread not only in endemic areas or poultry that died of the virus.
Spread of the virus can occur due to the high mobility of a person to endemic areas, he said. s
