Indonesia - Dozens of people died of rabies in Maluku

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Ambon (AFP)-dozens of residents of Southwestern Maluku district in Maluku Province died of rabies disease, acute infection caused by a virus transmitted through the bite of a rabid and animals such as dogs, cats, bats and monkeys.
' around the 50 's residents who have died from rabies so that
is the case already reported to the Governor of Moluccas, Karel Albert Ralahalu
in Ambon on the weekend, '' said Southwest Maluku Regent Barnabas Orno when contacted from Ambon,
Monday.
The number of casualties and deaths due to the disease of rabies in the region the most happening on the Islands that are located far from health facilities in Kisar, capital of the provisional Government of Southwestern Maluku district. ' I am worried the victim died, hence
health services have been instructed to conduct procurement vaksi anti rabies as you can while waiting for assistance from the Maluku provincial government's Ministry of health, as well as the
' he asserts. Unusual disease rabies has already happened in the County which is extracted from the West Southeast Maluku Regency on September 16, 2008 it since the beginning of February 2012. the limitation of the number of the number of health facilities and Manpower as well as the drugs make such difficulty controlling the County Government for transmission of an infectious disease that attacks the central nervous dispositions.

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Re: Indonesia - Dozens of people died of rabies in Maluku

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Rabies Outbreak Kills 50 in Indonesia's Maluku Province
March 05, 2012

Ambon, Maluku. At least 50 people have died of rabies in the recent weeks in a reported outbreak in the southwest district of Indonesia?s Maluku province, local officials said on Monday.

?Rabies has killed at least 50 people and hundreds of others have been infected by the virus,? Bernabas Orno said, adding that the outbreak has been reported to Maluku Governor Karel Albert Ralahalu...