Re: Indonesia - Human cases, July & August +
Re: Indonesia - Human cases, July & August +
Balinese man monitored for bird flu
From correspondents in Jakarta
Article from: Agence France-Presse
<!-- END Story Header Block -->HEALTH authorities on the Indonesian resort island of Bali are monitoring a 58-year-old man showing symptoms of bird flu, a day after another woman is thought to have died of the virus.
Bali has already confirmed one earlier death due to the deadly H5N1 strain of avian flu, prompting officials in the tourism-dependent island to cull
more than 6000 fowl and ban the trading and transport of chicken.
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The man, 58, is showing clinical symptoms of bird flu infection, such as high fever and coughing. He has also a history of contact with dead chickens," said Putu Andrika, head of the bird flu control unit at the Sanglah general hospital in Denpasar..
Mr Andrika said the man came
from the same Negara district as the first victim, whose infection was confirmed last week after she died.
Samples from the 58-year-old had been sent to Jakarta for testing, Mr Andrika said.
But he said the patient was not suffering respiratory problems, which is another symptom of the disease.
Two tests must return positive for H5N1 before a victim is counted as part of the official bird flu death toll in Indonesia, which is the highest in the world at 83.
Meanwhile, further test results are awaited on the woman who died yesterday, a chicken trader aged 28 whose first test from a local lab came back positive.
H5N1 is endemic in birds across nearly all of Indonesia and was first found in poultry on Bali more than a year ago.
Transmission
usually occurs directly from birds to humans.
Scientists worry that the virus will eventually mutate into a form that is much more easily transmissible between humans, triggering a disastrous global pandemic. :tiphat:
Coughing is a respiratory problem
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