knightrider2011
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Greetings. I am a US expatriate living in Java island of Indonesia, just outside the capital Jakarta near ground zero of the bird flu outbreak. One of my wife's relatives died of bird flu a few years ago and the WHO was over here asking questions (she had been to a chicken farm).
Don't believe the "1000 officially recorded cases of H1N1" when you read news about Indonesia. H1N1 came here early.. approximately in May when the father of one of my sister-in-law's students flew back from Mexico sick with ILI (influenza-like illness).
Seeing 200 people lined up outside one of the public health clinics (called "Puskesmas") sick with obvious ILI and having more than half my friends come down with a "bad/heavy flu", with two of them being hospitalized (one was 17 and the other was the father of one of my friends).
Multiply that phony "protecting our tourism" number of 1000 to more like 20,000, but I would add more than that to it since it hasn't been updated in two months.
Also the Eid al-Fitr holiday here where everyone goes home to see their family and kiss their mother's hands and shake hands, etc... expect to see an explosion of cases.
Lots of people here have "flu", but they don't go to a doctor because they can't afford it. People are quite sick here.
I'm allergic to eggs (weakness within 10-20 minutes of eating them, with stabbing pains in the stomach, followed by fever for a few days and diarrhea, even though the eggs were cooked), so I am not sure if I can get the H1N1 vaccine or not. I also have asthma, but I don't need asthma medication. It is primarily reactive.
I'm not sure if I'll have my doctor order the Australian vaccine (Panvax) or try to get Tamiflu (I have a prescription on paper, but only the state hospitals dispense it and they are full of H1N1 patients).
:-(
Take care my friends. This flu, I fear, is worse than what the CDC and WHO are letting us believe. They keep saying "mild", but people take it out of context. I think "mild" means "mild relative to previous pandemics, namely the 1918 and 1957 pandemics", not mild in terms of symptomology.
I called the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics and asked the nurse there about H1N1 symptoms. She said in no uncertain terms, "Swine flu symptoms are SEVERE". I believe her.
Everyone I know that has had it said it was pretty bad. I'm sure some have mild cases, but I don't see that happening here.
I have to admit I am scared. Since May, I have not let my 2 1/2 year old son leave the house and I use alcohol-based sanitizers along with N95 masks if I go out. My wife uses a surgical mask and takes a shower before entering our side of the house if she's been teaching her students or after coming back from a crowded place. It sounds extreme, but we don't want to take chances with this virus.
She had a severe ILI in February this year and paracetamol was ineffective in relieving the fever. She had to take tramadol (Ultram) to reduce the fever. Everyone, except me (N95 mask on and compulsive hand washing hehheh) got that flu. Well, I got a mild version thanks to the low amount of viral particulates I probably inhaled. I wonder if H1N1 was around the world before the media discovered it in Mexico City when the military was handing out masks. Maybe my wife already had swine flu in February? She had never had a flu that bad in her life. I was worried about her.
Sorry for the rambling. I am panicking one moment and then take a few Xanax to calm down and put things into perspective. People that die around here are young and healthy.. scary!
Anyway, I don't have the dates on the news below but do recall reading it in either late August or September:
Bali ::: Avian flu outbreak. A pregnant woman dies of H1N1 infection
"After being away for 2 weeks, here are some articles from The Jakarta Post mentioning bird flu outbreak in Buleleng, Bali, and a fatal H1N1 suspect patient."
A 19-year-old woman died after being treated for the H1N1 flu virus for almost a week at Sanglah Hospital in Denpasar, Bali.
Ken Wirasandhi, a spokesman from the hospital, said Friday that Ni Wayan Siti of Tampaksiring, Gianyar, died on Thursday night. Ken said the patient, who had tested positive for the H1N1 infection, had also had pneumonia.
Siti was eight months pregnant when she was admitted to the hospital on Saturday last week. She had a miscarriage three days later.
The hospital also suspected that Siti was infected with bird flu, but had yet to receive test results to confirm it.
Source: http://bit.ly/9c9F #swineflu #flubabi #H5N1 #birdflu #fluburung
Buleleng, Bali ? Residents of Tejakula village culled 400 chickens infected with the avian flu, to prevent the disease spreading.
?Intensive culling must be carried out in two affected villages in the regency,? said Bali Husbandry Agency head I.B. Alit.
He added avian flu was still present on the island, mostly among domesticated fowl.
Meanwhile, a pregnant woman from Gianyar regency is being treated at Sanglah Hospital for avian flu. Her unborn baby was dead.
Source: Indonesia newspaper, The Jakarta Post. http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2009/09/04/avian-flu-outbreak-recorded-buleleng.html
===AvianInfluenzaIndonesia===
Don't believe the "1000 officially recorded cases of H1N1" when you read news about Indonesia. H1N1 came here early.. approximately in May when the father of one of my sister-in-law's students flew back from Mexico sick with ILI (influenza-like illness).
Seeing 200 people lined up outside one of the public health clinics (called "Puskesmas") sick with obvious ILI and having more than half my friends come down with a "bad/heavy flu", with two of them being hospitalized (one was 17 and the other was the father of one of my friends).
Multiply that phony "protecting our tourism" number of 1000 to more like 20,000, but I would add more than that to it since it hasn't been updated in two months.
Also the Eid al-Fitr holiday here where everyone goes home to see their family and kiss their mother's hands and shake hands, etc... expect to see an explosion of cases.
Lots of people here have "flu", but they don't go to a doctor because they can't afford it. People are quite sick here.
I'm allergic to eggs (weakness within 10-20 minutes of eating them, with stabbing pains in the stomach, followed by fever for a few days and diarrhea, even though the eggs were cooked), so I am not sure if I can get the H1N1 vaccine or not. I also have asthma, but I don't need asthma medication. It is primarily reactive.
I'm not sure if I'll have my doctor order the Australian vaccine (Panvax) or try to get Tamiflu (I have a prescription on paper, but only the state hospitals dispense it and they are full of H1N1 patients).
:-(
Take care my friends. This flu, I fear, is worse than what the CDC and WHO are letting us believe. They keep saying "mild", but people take it out of context. I think "mild" means "mild relative to previous pandemics, namely the 1918 and 1957 pandemics", not mild in terms of symptomology.
I called the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics and asked the nurse there about H1N1 symptoms. She said in no uncertain terms, "Swine flu symptoms are SEVERE". I believe her.
Everyone I know that has had it said it was pretty bad. I'm sure some have mild cases, but I don't see that happening here.
I have to admit I am scared. Since May, I have not let my 2 1/2 year old son leave the house and I use alcohol-based sanitizers along with N95 masks if I go out. My wife uses a surgical mask and takes a shower before entering our side of the house if she's been teaching her students or after coming back from a crowded place. It sounds extreme, but we don't want to take chances with this virus.
She had a severe ILI in February this year and paracetamol was ineffective in relieving the fever. She had to take tramadol (Ultram) to reduce the fever. Everyone, except me (N95 mask on and compulsive hand washing hehheh) got that flu. Well, I got a mild version thanks to the low amount of viral particulates I probably inhaled. I wonder if H1N1 was around the world before the media discovered it in Mexico City when the military was handing out masks. Maybe my wife already had swine flu in February? She had never had a flu that bad in her life. I was worried about her.
Sorry for the rambling. I am panicking one moment and then take a few Xanax to calm down and put things into perspective. People that die around here are young and healthy.. scary!
Anyway, I don't have the dates on the news below but do recall reading it in either late August or September:
Bali ::: Avian flu outbreak. A pregnant woman dies of H1N1 infection
"After being away for 2 weeks, here are some articles from The Jakarta Post mentioning bird flu outbreak in Buleleng, Bali, and a fatal H1N1 suspect patient."
A 19-year-old woman died after being treated for the H1N1 flu virus for almost a week at Sanglah Hospital in Denpasar, Bali.
Ken Wirasandhi, a spokesman from the hospital, said Friday that Ni Wayan Siti of Tampaksiring, Gianyar, died on Thursday night. Ken said the patient, who had tested positive for the H1N1 infection, had also had pneumonia.
Siti was eight months pregnant when she was admitted to the hospital on Saturday last week. She had a miscarriage three days later.
The hospital also suspected that Siti was infected with bird flu, but had yet to receive test results to confirm it.
Source: http://bit.ly/9c9F #swineflu #flubabi #H5N1 #birdflu #fluburung
Buleleng, Bali ? Residents of Tejakula village culled 400 chickens infected with the avian flu, to prevent the disease spreading.
?Intensive culling must be carried out in two affected villages in the regency,? said Bali Husbandry Agency head I.B. Alit.
He added avian flu was still present on the island, mostly among domesticated fowl.
Meanwhile, a pregnant woman from Gianyar regency is being treated at Sanglah Hospital for avian flu. Her unborn baby was dead.
Source: Indonesia newspaper, The Jakarta Post. http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2009/09/04/avian-flu-outbreak-recorded-buleleng.html
===AvianInfluenzaIndonesia===
Lots of topics here. Keep up the good work.