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Indonesia again sends bird flu virus specimen to WHO lab
Jakarta (ANTARA News) - The Indonesian government has sent another bird flu or H5N1 virus specimen to a laboratory of the World Health Organization (WHO), a Health Ministry spokesperson said here Monday.
"The specimen was sent to the WHO`s Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, United States, last Thursday," the ministry`s spokeswoman, Lily S Sulistyowati, said.
She said the despatch was carried out by the Research and Development Agency of the Health Ministry (Balitbangkes) through the US Naval Medical Research Unit-2/NAMRU-2) office in Jakarta.
The specimen consisted of larynx and nose smears taken from a 29-year old woman identified as NLPS, an inhabitant of Jembrana, Bali who was positively infected with the virus and from a 34-month old child identified as NKP who was at first suspected of being infected but eventually tested negative for the virus.
The tests by the CDC in Atlanta were completed and the results were the same as the findings of the Balitbangkes and the Eijkman Molecular Biology Institute.
Meanwhile, the complete results of the sequencing of the Ribonucleic Acid (RNA) of the specimen would be obtained in the next two or three weeks, head of the Research and Development of the Bio-medics and Pharmacy of Balitbangkes, Endang Tri Sedyaningsih, said.
Lily added the sending of the specimen was aimed to prove that no mutation took place in the virus and to inform people in the world that Bali was still a safe place to visit.
Balitbangkes head Triono Sundoro separately said before sending the specimen from the bird flu suspected cases in Bali, the government had routinely sent samples of the virus to the WHO laboratory.
Indonesia, Lily said, was actually waiting for the WHO`s new mechanism of exchanging specimen and she expressed hope that the WHO would soon complete the mechanism to ensure transparent and fair exchanges. (*)
http://www.antara.co.id/en/arc/2007/8/20/indonesia-again-sends-bird-flu-virus-specimen-to-who-lab/
Jakarta (ANTARA News) - The Indonesian government has sent another bird flu or H5N1 virus specimen to a laboratory of the World Health Organization (WHO), a Health Ministry spokesperson said here Monday.
"The specimen was sent to the WHO`s Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, United States, last Thursday," the ministry`s spokeswoman, Lily S Sulistyowati, said.
She said the despatch was carried out by the Research and Development Agency of the Health Ministry (Balitbangkes) through the US Naval Medical Research Unit-2/NAMRU-2) office in Jakarta.
The specimen consisted of larynx and nose smears taken from a 29-year old woman identified as NLPS, an inhabitant of Jembrana, Bali who was positively infected with the virus and from a 34-month old child identified as NKP who was at first suspected of being infected but eventually tested negative for the virus.
The tests by the CDC in Atlanta were completed and the results were the same as the findings of the Balitbangkes and the Eijkman Molecular Biology Institute.
Meanwhile, the complete results of the sequencing of the Ribonucleic Acid (RNA) of the specimen would be obtained in the next two or three weeks, head of the Research and Development of the Bio-medics and Pharmacy of Balitbangkes, Endang Tri Sedyaningsih, said.
Lily added the sending of the specimen was aimed to prove that no mutation took place in the virus and to inform people in the world that Bali was still a safe place to visit.
Balitbangkes head Triono Sundoro separately said before sending the specimen from the bird flu suspected cases in Bali, the government had routinely sent samples of the virus to the WHO laboratory.
Indonesia, Lily said, was actually waiting for the WHO`s new mechanism of exchanging specimen and she expressed hope that the WHO would soon complete the mechanism to ensure transparent and fair exchanges. (*)
http://www.antara.co.id/en/arc/2007/8/20/indonesia-again-sends-bird-flu-virus-specimen-to-who-lab/