INDONESIA - BF Hits Bali

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Bird flu hits Bali
01/08/2006 10:59 - (SA)
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</TD></TR><TR></TR></TBODY></TABLE>ali - Hundreds of dead chickens found onIndonesia's Bali island resort have tested positive for the H5N1 strain of bird flu, an animal health official said on Tuesday.
Around 300 birds died of the virus over the past week, said I Gusti Ngurah Sandjaja in Bali's westernmost Jembrana district.
"We have carried out a rapid test and found that they were positively infected by the bird flu virus," Sandjaja said. "Fortunately, there are no indications that the virus has spread to humans here."
Indonesia, a vast archipelago comprising nearly 18 000 islands, has posted 42 human deaths since July 2005 and is tied with Vietnam as the world's hardest-hit country.
The World Health Organisation has said that limited human-to-human transmission may have occurred in a family on Sumatra island, the location of the world's largest cluster of human infections.
Health authorities were forced to cull large numbers of ducks and chickens on Bali earlier this year after birds became ill.

 

[Sharpe]

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They're probably referring to this previous outbreak:

Ducks on Bali island culled after bird flu infection found
April 25, 2006

BALI (AP): Ducks on Indonesia's island resort of Bali have tested positive for bird flu and have been culled, a government veterinarian said Tuesday.

Veterinary Disease Agency chief Dr. Anak Agung Gde Putra said initial tests showed that 16 infected birds were among hundreds of ducks smuggled from Java onto Bali earlier Tuesday. All were destroyed.

"We can confirm that ducks have been set on fire this morning after we checked them of having bird flu," he said. "We don't want to take any risks because ducks infected with bird flu wouldspread the disease to other birds."

No humans are believed to have been infected, he said.

Indonesia, the world's fourth-most-populous nation, has had outbreaks of the H5N1 avian flu strain in 26 of its 33 provinces. Diseased fowl increases the risk for humans and createopportunities for the virus to mutate into a pandemic form.

 

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"No humans are believed to have been infected, he said."......

Well, I believe that.

 

[Sharpe]

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"No humans are believed to have been infected, he said."......

Well, I believe that.

I would, actually, or at least believe that not many were infected. The chickens' virus and the humans' virus are diverging. What's killing people in Indonesia may not even kill chickens.