Gert van der Hoek
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Denpasar (Antara News) - Tim the researcher from the Medical Faculty the Udayana University Animal, the Association of the Indonesian Veterinary Surgeon (PDHI), and the Balinese Livestock Breeding Service found
"Two cases were found in two regencies from eight regencies and one city in Bali (that was researched)," said Director Program Pengkajian as well as the Socialisation of Bird Flu and the FKH Unud influenza Pandemic, Drh.
I Gusti Ngurah Mahardika, in Mengwi, on Thursday.
He said, from results of the laboratory research, two positive pig livestock tertular the virus H5N1, but was not found by the new development or the consignment virus from outside the area.
"If the AI virus that fell on the pig livestock immediately was not anticipated, it was worried about could infect the pig livestock naturally in Bali," said Mahardika.
The AI virus apart from attacking the animal livestock, the raging virus in accordance with the official data through to eight in September 2006 attacked 63 people in Java and Sumatra, 48 people among them died.
"Until at this time the case of bird flu in Bali was not yet found was to humankind contagious," said Mahardika while expecting all the sides to increase vigilance to avoid the illness that was dangerous enough this.
Bali with the inhabitants around 3.2 million souls, had the poultry population that was solid enough namely approximately 12 million tails, one million tails among them the pig.
The AI virus to the pig livestock in Bali genetically one klaster with the virus from Sumatra, that is the place of attachments with the receptor in a molecular manner had preference of the poultry receptor.
That must receive serious attention from all the sides, considering the virus H5N1 spread to the poultry in most Indonesian territories, including Bali that kedapatan attacked the chicken livestock, the duck and entok (the goose kind berleher short).
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