Bird Flu patients test negative in Karo, Indonesia

[Jeremy]

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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14148626/

Indonesia tests 7 for bird flu from same village
Cases in area where cluster from same family killed by virus in May
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Reuters[/FONT]

Updated: 8:15 a.m. ET Aug 2, 2006


<SCRIPT language=javascript> function UpdateTimeStamp(pdt) { var n = document.getElementById("udtD"); if(pdt != '' && n && window.DateTime) { var dt = new DateTime(); pdt = dt.T2D(pdt); if(dt.GetTZ(pdt)) {n.innerHTML = dt.D2S(pdt,(('false'.toLowerCase()=='false')?false:true));} } } UpdateTimeStamp('632901177222130000'); </SCRIPT>[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]MEDAN, Indonesia - Seven Indonesians from the same village in North Sumatra have been hospitalized and are being tested for bird flu, an official said on Wednesday, raising fears of new cluster cases in the country.[/FONT]

[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]The group comes from Karo district in North Sumatra province where bird flu killed as many as seven people in an extended family in May, triggering fears the H5N1 bird flu virus had mutated into a form that could spread easily between people.[/FONT]

[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]?Whether it is a new cluster or not, that must be scientifically proved,? said Runizar Ruesin, head of the bird flu information center at Indonesia?s health ministry.[/FONT]

[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]He said the seven were admitted to the local Kaban Jahe hospital, with three referred to the state-run Adam Malik hospital.[/FONT]

[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]The latter three are children ? two siblings aged 10 and six and their 18-month-old neighbor.[/FONT]

[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]?I am still waiting for the result of the tests.?[/FONT]

[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Another official said chickens in the area where they lived had died and tested positive for bird flu. Sick poultry is the usual mode of transmission of the disease, endemic in birds in about two-thirds of the country?s provinces.[/FONT]

 

[HenryN]

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Consistency was for the Eradication of the Plague of Bird Flu written by editorial staff on Wednesday, on August 02 2006 we were very happy on the decision of the Government of the Province Sumtara North terkait
with eradication efforts of the plague of bird flu.

By Pemprovsu was named, especially for the Karo Regency region, was stated was closed for the movement in and out of the poultry.
This decision was regarded as part of the effort to release this area from the plague of bird flu, after some time before, the intensity of the spreading of the plague of bird flu didaerah this was very high.
If we back to behind, that since being maintained by him the Karo Regency as the area endemi for the spreading of the plague of bird flu, beforehand has many casualties that fell.

Not only many poultry that died, in fact the life of humankind then often has been claimed.

In this position, the government was always prosecuted to be able to act as wise as possible.

Some time before, we also heard, as being reported by various mass media, the government through the Minister kordinator Welfare of the People (the Co-ordinating Minister Kesra) Aburizal Bakrie issued the instruction about the control of the infection of the bird flu virus, including the extermination of the limited poultry (selective culling).
The problem is, made the control method of the model like this effective?
Perhaps the model of this kind, also could bring the loss that very big for the community, for example if not having taken part in with giving of compensation for the community that his poultry took part in being destroyed.

Indeed the plague of bird flu again was at a peak, after the discovery of the positive inhabitants contracted bird flu in the Fortification Village Sibelang the Karo Regency.

Afterwards in several areas in fact was found that his intensity was increasingly big and claimed fatalities.

Moreover in West Java, this bird flu virus claimed fatalities.
Thousands of livestock also finally must have been destroyed as a result of being detected contracting the bird flu virus.

Likewise in other areas.

Believed in, if immediately was not looked for the real and basic solution to overcome this incident, then as a result of the continuation, both took the form of the threat to the poultry and the health of humankind will continue to happen.

This kind of the bird flu virus was indeed very dangerous.
Because if humankind has been infected, then big the possibility will die.
The matter so perhaps that became consideration of the government so as to dismiss the policy of destroying all the available poultry kinds around it.
But again and again, we ought to ask, did this step then become the solution that most effective to combat the dangerous illness this?

One matter that ought to be recorded was that the government must carry out compensation or as the form of compensation for the breeders that his poultry took part in being destroyed.

Because, almost could be ascertained, for them who were directly affected by the impact of this extermination, moreover many of the they made his life dependent to raised poultries, really big.

So, they needed capital to begin new efforts.

Indeed in the eradication of the plague of this bird flu needed consistency.
Be not enough only very much.

Might not only a partial step.

The co-ordination between the department, and intergovernmental the area along with his rank really was needed in dealing with him.

So, for areas that have been positive terjangkit the bird flu virus, then the curative action and rehabilitatif appropriate was put forward.

Now for areas that were not yet detected being infected by this virus, then preventive efforts and pro-the motive must be done in a kontiniu manner.

Meaning that needing consistency in an effort to overcome him.
Consistency in overcoming the spreading of this bird flu could in headed by upholding the aspect of the hardening.

For example the supervision must be intensified especially being related to the livestock seed that entered this area also must be supervised.
Likewise with livestock food.

So the Pemprovsu decision to ban for entered and the issuing of the poultry must be from the Karo Regency supported by all the sides.
Not hanyak supportive, but also took part in giving the contribution inside.

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[Commonground]

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From Post #40:

"Director RSU Dr the Ginting Voice when being asked for by his response reporter, said, in RS that was led by him was not yet available isolation space." [sounds to me like there wasn't any available isolation space?]

"Considering the verification in results of investigation about the plague of bird flu in Karo still in the process of the side's related research, the Faction of PDI P DPR RI asked the Karo Regional Government to stop actions that his characteristics were arrogant and the anarchist in the extermination of the chicken in Karo.

Moreover was very damaging the wider community and discredited all the lines of the wheel of the economy in Karo, the Karo Regional Government must immediately make the statement to the public that, the bird flu virus was not in Karo." [Yeah, right.]

 

[HenryN]

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Liputan6.com, Medan:

the Etty Boru Sitepu Condition and his brother, Dedek Boru Sitepu as well as their relatives, Moses Perangin-Wind increasingly good.

The three assumption patients of the bird flu were still feeling breathless.

However, the temperature of their body has been normal.

Etty and Dedek as well as Moses till this Wednesday (2/8), were treated in the Pilgrim's Public Hospital Adam the Owner in the Medan City, North Sumatra.

Two other patients that it was suspected contracted the similar illness that is Reny Boru Ginting and Alvian Sitepu were treated in RSU Kabanjahe, the Karo Land Regency.

The example of blood, the saliva, and urine of all the patient has been brought to Jakarta.

Results of the inspection of the Body of Health Research And Development will determine whether the five true patients were infected by bird flu or not [read: Lima the Citizen of the Land Karo was expected by Bird Flu].

When they positive was infected by the virus avian influenza (AI) the sub-type H5NI, then this was the case cluster second bird flu in North Sumatra after the case in the Karo Land.

The illness killed seven people [read: the Case Karo the Possibility from Humankind to Humankind].

As for the location clearance of the case of first and second bird flu only around 40 kilometre.(AIS/Tim Coverage 6 SCTV)


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[HenryN]

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The fund of the Poultry of Extermination Compensation was infected by Bird Flu rose So Rp12.500 was written by editorial staff on Wednesday, on August 02 2006 Jakarta (SIB) the Government raised the mulberry of the poultry that was infected by the bird flu virus of the fund of extermination compensation.

(Avian influenza/AI) that beforehand Rp10 thousand to Rp12.500.

?Sejak today was decided, we took the policy of raising the compensation fund to Rp12.500,? Secretary General's words the National Commission the Control of Bird Flu and Preparedness faced the Bayu Krishnamurti influenza Pandemic when being contacted from Jakarta, on Wednesday.

According to him, the policy was taken because many of the community's members that complained and did not want received the mulberry the value of the poultry that was maintained beforehand of the fund of extermination compensation.

The condition like this, according to him, could hinder the process of the control of the deadly infection that was spread by the poultry so as the government afterwards decided to raise the mulberry of the compensation fund.

It was larger that the fund of the poultry of extermination compensation that new that, according to Bayu, was results of the compromise between the government and the community.

?Itu was results of the compromise after we carried out the meeting and held a dialogue with the regional government and masyarakat,? he said.

It was further that he explained that at this time the government, in this case Coordinating Minister for People's Welfare Aburizal Bakrie as the Chairman Komnas and Agriculture Minister Anton Apriantono, was visiting and carrying out the dialogue with the community and the government of the Karo Regency, North Sumatra, to give the understanding about the danger of the infection of the bird flu virus of minimising the community's resistance towards various policies in the control of bird flu in the area.

He said the action was carried out because at this time three citizens of the place regency of the case klaster the biggest bird flu was stated as suspek the bird flu infection.

According to the official of the Control Command Post of the Department's Bird Flu of the Health Doctor Nadhirin at this time his side was carrying out investigation epidemologi towards this case.

Results of the national laboratory inspection of the specimen of the three patients will according to him go out in one to the next two days.

He explained also that at this time the total case number of bird flu in Indonesia totalling 56 cases and 43 among them

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[HenryN]

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Commentary at

http://www.recombinomics.com/News/08020602/H5N1_Karo_Increase.html

 

[HenryN]

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One Patient Karo headed Suspect Bird flu
Khairul the Brother - detikcom
<!--IMAGE --><EMBED align=right src=""http://ad.detik.com/images/peristiwa/prs-relion240x400.swf width=240 height=400 type=application/x-shockwave-flash border="0"> Medan - the Condition 3 patients Karo that was treated in the central Public Hospital (RSUP) Adam the Medan Owner, continued to be monitored. Fadil -lah Supari Health Minister said had one patient who headed to Suspect Bird flu.

"Two patients in the healthy situation, whereas one patient headed" Suspect With pneumonia. Pneumonia usually emerges the day to four, said Menkes in RSUP Adam the Owner, Street Bungalow, Medan, on Wednesday (2/8/2006).

Dede Sitepu (6), Prominent words, were casualties who headed Suspect Bird flu. The possibility was based on the verification 2 times to the photograph Thorax -him. Whereas Evi Sitepu (10) and Moses Perangin-wind (1,5) his condition began to improve.

Said by Menkes, Specimen The three patients have been taken and still was researched in the laboratory. His side was still being waiting for confirmation whether positive H5N1 or not.

"Results of the inspection will as soon as possible be announced," Prominent words that came to with the Co-ordinating Minister Kesra Aburizal Bakrie and the Minister For Agriculture Anton Apriantono.

Flagged down

Beforehand, the party the ministers could be flagged down by approximately 100 citizens when visiting the Sumbul Village, the Kabanjahe Subdistrict, Karo. The citizen felt the citizen was touched on his area was sentenced terjangkit bird flu.

The citizen shouted at the party's member who got out of the car with protective clothes. Could happen pushed each other, but after holding a dialogue with the Regent Karo DD Sinulingga, the calm then and prepared mass held a dialogue with the ministers in the village hall.

"Our presence to the Karo Regency was the direct order from the" President "to see directly the last condition for the community." This was done to guard the people and prevent the spreading of the virus so that casualties do not improve again, said Ical in the meeting in the village that be at a distance 90 km from Medan this.

Ical could then hand over protective clothes to one of the citizens. He instructed so that these clothes are put on when touching the poultry that died as a result of the bird flu virus. [FONT='MS Sans Serif',Geneva,sans-serif](Fay) [/FONT]

http://www.detiknews.com/index.php/...8/tgl/03/time/000812/idnews/648666/idkanal/10

 

[sharon sanders]

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Moderators - please leave this thread in Indonesia forum. We have many Breaking stories that need exposure in the Breaking forum.

Thanks!!!

 

[Theresa42]

Sounds like throat swabs and blood tests sent to Jakarta...

Sounds like throat swabs and blood tests sent to Jakarta...

toggletext-ed from Indonesia:

Menkes: The Serious Government handled Bird Flu in the Karo Land
August 3, 2006

Health Minister Dr Siti Fadila said, the government was interested serious in the handling of the case of bird flu that happened in the Karo Regency. Particularly the case suspect (the assumption) bird flu that again happened in the Karo Land fell on three children that is, Dedek Sitepu (6), Moses Valentino Sitepu (10) and Elvi Febrianti Sitepu (10), villagers Sumbul Mufakat the Karo Land. The three of them are currently treated in the central Public Hospital (RSUP) H Adam the Owner since Tuesday (1/8).

Was like this it was said Menkes in his visit to RSUP H Adam the Medan Owner, on Wednesday (2/8) with the Co-ordinating Minister Kesra Aburizal Bakrie and Agriculture Minister Anton Apriantono, Gubsu Drs Rudolf M. Pardede, the Representative of the Section Head the North Sumatran Health Dr H Syaiful Munawar Sitompul.

Their arrival was accepted by Director RSUP H Adam the Owner Dr H Armand P Daulay Mkes, Wadir the Medical Service and Education Dr Nur Rasyid SpB HM and rays public relations Ginting SE. at That Time the Co-ordinating Minister Kesra and the Minister For Agriculture saw and held directly a dialogue in a third manner the patient suspect bird flu that was treated in A Longing Space.

Menkes mentioned, although the three of them suspect bird flu but they still ok and was not yet found by the virus H5N1. However to confirm the three of them were infected by the bird flu virus or not, still needed the piston inspection and the lungs from the medical team. It was most important that they have been given medicine tamiflu. Hopefully they immediately recovered, said Menkes.

"Waited for results of the development of the medical inspection that was sent by the medical team to Jakarta, of the patient to have to be not given came home until really was learnt results of his inspection were positive not him they were infected by bird flu," stressed Menkes.

The PREVENTION

For the prevention expanded him the case of bird flu was carried out by the extermination action more 10 thousand poultries in the Karo Land so as this area can eventually be really safe from the case of bird flu.

After before was done by preparations and compensation against the poultry that was destroyed that co-operated Officially Livestock Breeding.

In the meantime Aburizal Bakrie said, the bird flu virus or H5N1 that struck the Karo Regency since 2006 this was the serious problem that immediately must be dealt with in order to decides the link expanded him the plague of the bird flu virus in this area that attacked the poultry and humankind especially in the area of the Karo Land.

PEMERIKSAAN

According to the Chairman Tim the handling of the case of bird flu Prof Dr H Luhur Soeroso SpP, in the handling of the three patients suspect his side's bird flu carried out the piston inspection, blood and the lungs.

Results of this inspection were sent to Jakarta. "But results of his inspection were still being waited for. Hopefully the three of them the negative terjangkit the bird flu virus," said Soeroso.

"We also hoped the three freest patients from the bird flu virus that could kill humankind. Nevertheless the three of them were not permitted to come home to his native village. So the three of them continued to be given medicine and his inspection continued to be done. We must carefully handle the case of bird flu because of being related to the life of humankind," stressed Soeroso.

The minister with the party continued the trip to the Karo Land to know the existence of the assumption of the bird flu virus of striking four districts in Kabanjahe the Karo Land and in the residence village of the three patients who at this time still were treated in RSUP Adam the Owner.

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[HenryN]

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Menkes: the Serious Government handled Bird Flu in the Karo Land
Medan, (the Analysis)

Health Minister Dr Siti Fadila said, the government was interested serious in the handling of the case of bird flu that happened in the Karo Regency.
Particularly the case suspect (the assumption) bird flu that again happened in the Karo Land fell on three children that is, Dedek Sitepu (6), Moses Valentino Sitepu (10) and Elvi Febrianti Sitepu (10), villagers Sumbul Mufakat the Karo Land.

The three of them are currently treated in the central Public Hospital (RSUP) H Adam the Owner since Tuesday (1/8).

Was like this it was said Menkes in his visit to RSUP H Adam the Medan Owner, on Wednesday (2/8) with the Co-ordinating Minister Kesra Aburizal Bakrie and Agriculture Minister Anton Apriantono, Gubsu Drs Rudolf M. Pardede, the Representative of the Section Head the North Sumatran Health Dr H Syaiful Munawar Sitompul.

Their arrival was accepted by Director RSUP H Adam the Owner Dr H Armand P Daulay Mkes, Wadir the Medical Service and Education Dr Nur Rasyid SpB HM and rays public relations Ginting SE. at That Time the Co-ordinating Minister Kesra and the Minister For Agriculture saw and held directly a dialogue in a third manner the patient suspect bird flu that was treated in A Longing Space.

Menkes mentioned, although the three of them suspect bird flu but they still ok and was not yet found by the virus H5N1.
However to confirm the three of them were infected by the bird flu virus or not, still needed the piston inspection and the lungs from the medical team.

It was most important that they have been given medicine tamiflu.
Hopefully they immediately recovered, said Menkes.
"Waited for results of the development of the medical inspection that was sent by the medical team to Jakarta, of the patient to have to be not given came home until really was learnt results of his inspection were positive not him they were infected by bird flu," stressed Menkes.

The PREVENTION

For the prevention expanded him the case of bird flu was carried out by the extermination action more 10 thousand poultries in the Karo Land so as this area can eventually be really safe from the case of bird flu.
After before was done by preparations and compensation against the poultry that was destroyed that co-operated Officially Livestock Breeding.
In the meantime Aburizal Bakrie said, the bird flu virus or H5N1 that struck

 

[Shannon Bennett]

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Sumatra in new flu alarm

Seven Indonesians from the same village in North Sumatra have been admitted to hospital and are being tested for bird flu, raising fears of new cluster cases in the country.

Adriana Nina Kusuma

Thursday, August 03, 2006

Seven Indonesians from the same village in North Sumatra have been admitted to hospital and are being tested for bird flu, raising fears of new cluster cases in the country.
The group comes from Karo district in North Sumatra province where bird flu killed as many as seven people in an extended family in May, triggering fears the H5N1 bird flu virus had mutated into a form that could spread easily between people.
"Whether it is a new cluster or not, that must be scientifically proved," said Runizar Ruesin, head of the bird flu information center at Indonesia's health ministry.
He said the seven were admitted to the local Kaban Jahe hospital, with three referred to a state-run hospital.
The latter three are children - two siblings aged 10 and six and their 18-month-old neighbor.
"I am still waiting for the result of the tests," Ruesin said.
Another official said chickens in the area where they lived had died and tested positive for bird flu. Sick poultry is the usual mode of transmission of the disease, endemic in birds in about two- thirds of the country's provinces.
Health Minister Siti Fadilah Supari, Agriculture Minister Anton Apriyantono and Welfare Minister Aburizal Bakrie travelled to Karo on Wednesday to assess the situation and were jostled by villagers angry about a planned bird culling.
At one point, locals tried to rip off the protective masks being worn by the three ministers, who eventually were forced to take off the white protective suits they were wearing, and the planned cull was called off as the army restored order.
"This is the first time that we have had a rejection of bird culling," the agriculture minister said.
Many in Indonesia oppose culling, contesting whether their fowl are sick and with compensation of only 12,500 rupiah (HK$11.25) a bird.
The seven being tested are from the village of Sumber Mufakat, in the same district as the case in May, which was the biggest cluster of the disease the country has recorded and sparked fears of a global pandemic of bird flu in humans.
The World Health Organisation said in May that two members of the cluster, a man and his ailing son, might have caught the virus in a case of direct human-to-human transmission, but the virus did not spread very far if this did happen.
Sari Setiogi, the WHO's spokeswoman in Indonesia, said the body was aware of the latest suspected cases.
"But they are still suspected cases. We have to wait for the test results," she said.
The three children out of the group were hospitalised Tuesday after showing symptoms of bird flu, said Luhur Suroso, the director of the Adam Malik hospital.
"Their lungs have not shown signs of pneumonia, but we have to keep monitoring them because in one or two days things could change," Suroso said.
Indonesia has been criticised for not doing enough to stamp out H5N1, which still remains essentially an animal disease.
Worldwide, the disease has killed at least 134 people since it re-emerged in east Asia in 2003. REUTERS
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[HenryN]

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MEDAN, Indonesia Officials on Indonesia's Sumatra island say seven people who were feared to have bird flu don't have it.

Hospital tests have come back negative and the seven are all improving.

The patients are members of two families and were being treated as suspected bird flu cases because they live in an area where poultry had been infected.

All had developed coughs and light fevers and doctors were concerned they might represent two new clusters of the deadly virus.

http://www.eyewitnessnewstv.com/Global/story.asp?S=5233967

 

[Dark Horse]

Seven Indonesians test negative for bird flu

Seven Indonesians test negative for bird flu

I hope this is true.


Seven Indonesians test negative for bird flu

Seven Indonesians from the same area of Sumatra island who were taken to hospital amid fears they had bird flu have tested negative for the virus and their conditions are improving, officials said today.

Specimens taken from the patients all came back negative for the H5N1 virus in local tests, said Nyoman Kandun, a leading Health Ministry official.


The patients ? from two families ? were being treated as suspected bird flu cases because they lived in an area that had infected poultry. They developed coughs and light fevers, and officials had feared the formation of two new H5N1 virus clusters.


http://www.irishexaminer.com/breaking/story.asp?j=4058205&p=4x58zzx&n=4058297&x=

 

[Laidback Al]

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Now on MSM......

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060803/hl_afp/healthfluindonesia


Suspected Indonesian bird flu cases test negative <!-- END HEADLINE -->
<!-- BEGIN STORY BODY -->by Victor TjahjadiThu Aug 3, 6:13 AM ET


Six suspected bird flu patients in Indonesia, one of the nations hardest hit by H5N1, have been cleared of carrying the deadly virus.
The negative results eased immediate fears of another cluster of cases in Indonesia, where 42 people have died of bird flu. Vietnam has the same number of deaths but unlike Indonesia has not reported any this year.
Such clusters raise the threat of the virus mutating and leading to a human flu pandemic.
"The results of the specimens ... turned out to be negative, therefore no H5N1 virus was found in the specimens," Health Minister Siti Fadilah Supari told reporters Thursday.
The patients, three of whom are children and have been hospitalised, come from a district in North Sumatra where a cluster of seven H5N1 deaths occurred in May and sick chickens have been found, but are from a different village.
That cluster was the world's first lab-confirmed human-to-human transmission of bird flu. Scientists feared that the virus may have mutated sufficiently to permit efficient transmission among people, hastening a global human flu pandemic with the potential to kill millions.
But the slight mutation that took place was determined to be insignificant.
The health minister said the suspected patients were found during surveillance checks following the discovery of dead poultry in the area.
Of the six, two siblings aged 10 and six and their 18-month-old neighbour were hospitalised in the North Sumatra capital of Medan on Tuesday after being treated at their local hospital in Kabanjahe village.
Senior health official Hariyadi Wibisono said earlier Thursday that the three were being treated as one potential cluster of cases, while a second group of neighbours in the village were considered another.
Ringet Boru Sitepu, an official at Kabanjahe hospital, had said four patients had come to the hospital for X-rays after complaining of flu-like symptoms but refused to be admitted and were in a reasonable condition.
Another hospital official later told AFP that one patient appeared to have been counted twice.
The health ministry's bird flu information centre said four bird flu experts, including a doctor from the World Health Organisation, had been sent to the affected area to meet local officials.
A WHO official could not immediately be reached for comment.
Health minister Supari also said that local Indonesian tests would no longer need routinely to be sent abroad for confirmation.
She said laboratories here were now directly connected to the US Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, which is WHO-affiliated, so the results could be considered reliable.
Indonesia's government has been accused of acting too slowly to curb the spread of bird flu and criticised for failing to conduct mass slaughters of sick birds, an action recommended by the United Nations and undertaken by Vietnam and Thailand.

 

[Jeremy]

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Health minister Supari also said that local Indonesian tests would no longer need routinely to be sent abroad for confirmation.

She said laboratories here were now directly connected to the US Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, which is WHO-affiliated, so the results could be considered reliable.

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This is an interesting development.

Furthermore, I am not so sure that 'directly connected to the CDC' equates to 'reliable'.

 

[Theresa42]

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Re: 9 suspected bf patients in Karo, Indonesia

Maybe the Hong Kong lab has indicated they'd like to start making sequences public while the CDC on the other hand....

 

[Mingus]

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Re: 9 suspected bf patients in Karo, Indonesia

Anyone knows what kind of specimen haved been taken ? (swabs, blood , ???)
It's hard to assess the test validity without theses info coupled with the exact timing of sampling and of the first symptoms.

 

[Shannon Bennett]

Re: 9 suspected bf patients in Karo, Indonesia

Re: 9 suspected bf patients in Karo, Indonesia

This has been the problem from the very beginning, no reliable tests are immediately available in these countries. They take nasal swabs when the virus in in the lungs. It is only later when the patient dies or they test for antibodies that there is confirmation of bf. Don't believe these reports just yet.

 

[Mingus]

Villagers rebels against Bird culling !

Villagers rebels against Bird culling !

Almost all of this report is the same stuff as seen elsewhere except that story about villagers that rebels against bird culling and attack governmental officials !!!

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AVIAN INFLUENZA, HUMAN (108): INDONESIA, SUSPECTED
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Date: Thu 3 Aug 2006
From: Mary Marshall <tropical.forestry@btinternet.com>
Source: The Scotsman newspaper, Reuters report, Wed 2 Aug 2006 [edited]
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Seven Indonesians from the same village in North Sumatra have been
hospitalized and are being tested for avian influenza, an official said on
Wednesday [2 Aug 2006], raising fears of new cluster [of] cases in the
country. The group [of cases] comes from Karo district in North Sumatra
province where bird flu killed as many as 7 people in an extended family in
May 2006, triggering fears that the H5N1 bird flu virus had mutated into a
form that could spread easily between people. "Whether it is a new cluster
or not, that must be scientifically proved," said Runizar Ruesin, head of
the bird flu information centre at Indonesia's Health Ministry.

He said the 7 were admitted to the local Kaban Jahe hospital, with 3
referred to a state-run hospital. The latter 3 are children -- 2 siblings
aged 10 and 6 years and their 18 month old neighbour. "I am still waiting
for the result of the tests," Ruesin said. Another official said chickens
in the area where they lived had died and tested positive for bird flu.
Sick poultry is the usual mode of transmission of the disease, endemic in
birds in about 2/3 of the country's provinces.

Health minister Siti Fadilah Supari, agriculture minister Anton
Apriyantono, and welfare minister Aburizal Bakrie travelled to Karo on
Wednesday to assess the situation, but were jostled by villagers angry
about a planned bird culling. At one point, locals tried to rip off the
protective masks being worn by the 2 ministers, who eventually were forced
to take off the white protective suits they were wearing, and the planned
cull was called off as the army restored order.

"This is the 1st time that we have had a rejection of bird culling," the
agriculture minister said. Many in Indonesia oppose culling, contesting
whether their fowl are sick and with compensation of only 12 500 rupiah
[USD 1.37] a bird.
The 7 being tested are from the village of Sumber Mufakat, in the same
district as the case in May, which was the biggest cluster of the disease
the country has recorded and sparked fears of a global pandemic of bird flu
in humans. The World Health Organization said in May 2006 that 2 members of
the cluster, a man and his ailing son, might have caught the virus in a
case of direct human-to-human transmission, but the virus did not spread
very far if this did happen.

Sari Setiogi, the WHO's spokeswoman in Indonesia, said WHO was aware of the
latest suspected cases. "But they are still suspected cases. We have to
wait for the test results."

The 3 children were hospitalised on Tuesday [1 Aug 2006] after showing
symptoms of bird flu, said Luhur Suroso, the director of the Adam Malik
hospital. "Their lungs have not shown signs of pneumonia but we have to
keep monitoring them because in one or 2 days things could change," Suroso
told Reuters.

Indonesia has been criticised for not doing enough to stamp out H5N1, which
still remains essentially an animal disease but experts fear could spark a
pandemic if it mutates into a form that can pass easily among people.
Earlier on Wednesday, the welfare minister said government policy had been
tightened to extend from 1 to 5 kilometres (3 miles) the area in which
birds would be culled. The government has so far shied away from mass
culling of poultry, citing lack of funds and impracticality in a country
with millions of backyard fowl.

Indonesia has recorded 42 deaths from the H5N1 bird flu virus, equalling
Viet Nam, where no one is known to have died of the disease this year.
Human cases of bird flu have been rising steadily in Indonesia since its
first known outbreak in poultry in late 2003. Worldwide, the disease has
killed at least 134 people since it re-emerged in East Asia in 2003.

[byline: Adriana Nina Kusuma, Diyan Jari, Ahmad Pathoni and Fitri Wulandari]

--
Mary Marshall
<tropical.forestry@btinternet.com>

[The number of individuals in the village of Sumber Mufakat in Karo
district of the province of North Sumatra who have been hospitalized on
suspicion of avian influenza virus infection has increased from 3 to 7 in
the past 24 hours. The village is located in the same district as the
cluster of cases in an extended family where there was some evidence of
human-to-human transmission of infection. At this stage the hospitalization
of the 7 is precautionary since no confirmation of avian influenza virus
infection by laboratory testing has been obtained so far. Furthermore the
first 3 patients (2 siblings and a neighbouring child) are not exhibiting
signs of serious lower respiratory tract infection.

 

[Sharpe]

Re: 9 suspected bf patients in Karo, Indonesia

Re: 9 suspected bf patients in Karo, Indonesia

Anyone knows what kind of specimen haved been taken ? (swabs, blood , ???)
It's hard to assess the test validity without theses info coupled with the exact timing of sampling and of the first symptoms.

What validity? How is any of this valid? What a mess.