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INDONESIA - Garut Cluster Part III
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Shannon Bennett
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Why does that explanation sound so obvious in hindsight? Thank you Dr. Niman.
Why does that explanation sound so obvious in hindsight? Thank you Dr. Niman.
Laidback Al
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Re: INDONESIA - Garut Cluster Part III
A thank you from me, also. I have been trying to count cases from Garut in this thread and I failed to see that the two paragraphs were discussing different provinces[SIZE=+0].[/SIZE]
A thank you from me, also. I have been trying to count cases from Garut in this thread and I failed to see that the two paragraphs were discussing different provinces[SIZE=+0].[/SIZE]
Lyro
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INDONESIA - Garut Cluster Part III
A 6-year-old girl, reported from West Java.
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BIRD FLU INFECTS CHILD, MARKING 60th INDONESIAN CASE
August 23, 2006 (Bloomberg)
Indonesia reported its 60th human case of bird flu after a 6-year-old girl tested positive for the virus, which has killed an average of one person a week in the country this year, Bloomberg reported.
The girl, from Bekasi in West Java, developed symptoms Aug. 6 and is being treated in an isolation ward at Sulianti Saroso Hospital in Jakarta, Runizar Ruesin, head of the health ministry's avian flu information center, said in a phone interview today. Dead birds were recorded in the girl's neighborhood, indicating a possible source of her infection.
Medical and animal health officials are struggling to arrest the H5N1 avian flu strain, which has spread to fowl in 80 percent of Indonesia's 33 provinces. Diseased birds risk infecting humans and create chances for the virus to mutate into a pandemic form that may kill millions of people.
?The situation in Indonesia is of concern from a public health perspective,? Laurence Gleeson, a regional manager with the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization in Bangkok, said in an interview yesterday. Some people ?probably haven't heard the message about how to protect themselves from the disease.?
Since 2003, H5N1 is known to have infected 240 people in 10 countries, killing 141 of them, according to the World Health Organization. Almost all human H5N1 cases have been linked to close contact with sick or dead birds, such as children playing with them or adults butchering them or plucking feathers, according to the Geneva-based agency.
Majority of fatalities
This year, 64 people in nine countries are confirmed to have died from H5N1, with more than half the fatalities occurring in Indonesia. The virus has killed four of every five people infected with the disease in the Southeast Asian nation.
Health authorities are awaiting test results on a 35-year- old woman from the Simalungun regency in North Sumatra province who is suspected to have been infected by diseased chickens, Health Minister Siti Fadilah Supari told reporters in Jakarta today. The woman developed symptoms of cough and high fever on Aug. 21, Supari said.
The Indonesian government is starting a new campaign next week to warn of the dangers of handling sick or dead fowl before the rainy season starts, Bayu Krisnamurthi, secretary of a government-appointed committee on avian and pandemic flu, said yesterday. The cooler season increases the risk of flu, he said.
Source: www.thanhniennews.com/healthy/?catid=8&newsid=19192
A 6-year-old girl, reported from West Java.
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BIRD FLU INFECTS CHILD, MARKING 60th INDONESIAN CASE
August 23, 2006 (Bloomberg)
Indonesia reported its 60th human case of bird flu after a 6-year-old girl tested positive for the virus, which has killed an average of one person a week in the country this year, Bloomberg reported.
The girl, from Bekasi in West Java, developed symptoms Aug. 6 and is being treated in an isolation ward at Sulianti Saroso Hospital in Jakarta, Runizar Ruesin, head of the health ministry's avian flu information center, said in a phone interview today. Dead birds were recorded in the girl's neighborhood, indicating a possible source of her infection.
Medical and animal health officials are struggling to arrest the H5N1 avian flu strain, which has spread to fowl in 80 percent of Indonesia's 33 provinces. Diseased birds risk infecting humans and create chances for the virus to mutate into a pandemic form that may kill millions of people.
?The situation in Indonesia is of concern from a public health perspective,? Laurence Gleeson, a regional manager with the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization in Bangkok, said in an interview yesterday. Some people ?probably haven't heard the message about how to protect themselves from the disease.?
Since 2003, H5N1 is known to have infected 240 people in 10 countries, killing 141 of them, according to the World Health Organization. Almost all human H5N1 cases have been linked to close contact with sick or dead birds, such as children playing with them or adults butchering them or plucking feathers, according to the Geneva-based agency.
Majority of fatalities
This year, 64 people in nine countries are confirmed to have died from H5N1, with more than half the fatalities occurring in Indonesia. The virus has killed four of every five people infected with the disease in the Southeast Asian nation.
Health authorities are awaiting test results on a 35-year- old woman from the Simalungun regency in North Sumatra province who is suspected to have been infected by diseased chickens, Health Minister Siti Fadilah Supari told reporters in Jakarta today. The woman developed symptoms of cough and high fever on Aug. 21, Supari said.
The Indonesian government is starting a new campaign next week to warn of the dangers of handling sick or dead fowl before the rainy season starts, Bayu Krisnamurthi, secretary of a government-appointed committee on avian and pandemic flu, said yesterday. The cooler season increases the risk of flu, he said.
Source: www.thanhniennews.com/healthy/?catid=8&newsid=19192
One more suspected birdflu from Cikelet admitted to hospital
One more suspected birdflu from Cikelet admitted to hospital
http://www.antara.co.id/en/seenws/?id=18739
Bandung (ANTARA News) - One more suspected birdflu patient was admitted at the Hasan Sadikin Hospital here on Wednesday.
The patient, He (21), from Cigado in the subdistrict of Cikelet, Garut, West Java, was admitted at the hospital at around 4.45 pm.
The patient was suffereing from a high fever, cough and breathing problems when he was brought to the hospital.
He was the sixth suspected birdflu patient brought to the hospital.
Six birdflu patients who are currently being treated at the hospital come from the same district.
Two people from the district died recently of the disease.
One more suspected birdflu from Cikelet admitted to hospital
http://www.antara.co.id/en/seenws/?id=18739
Bandung (ANTARA News) - One more suspected birdflu patient was admitted at the Hasan Sadikin Hospital here on Wednesday.
The patient, He (21), from Cigado in the subdistrict of Cikelet, Garut, West Java, was admitted at the hospital at around 4.45 pm.
The patient was suffereing from a high fever, cough and breathing problems when he was brought to the hospital.
He was the sixth suspected birdflu patient brought to the hospital.
Six birdflu patients who are currently being treated at the hospital come from the same district.
Two people from the district died recently of the disease.
Theresa42
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Re: INDONESIA - Garut Cluster Part III
When you said numbers from Bandung, Dr. Niman, does that mean numbers from West Java province totally (I think it must) -- or just numbers of people treated in Bandung hospitals? (Bandung is not a province, but the capital of West Java province.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandung
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Java
Just to clarify, it's not numbers from two different provinces -- it's numbers from (I think) West Java province versus the numbers from Garut regency (a part of West Java province) that were gettin' confused there.Laidback Al said:
When you said numbers from Bandung, Dr. Niman, does that mean numbers from West Java province totally (I think it must) -- or just numbers of people treated in Bandung hospitals? (Bandung is not a province, but the capital of West Java province.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandung
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Java
Theresa42
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Re: INDONESIA - Garut Cluster Part III
Hat-tip, andym!
toggletext-ed from Indonesian:
Take medicine RACIKAN the FATHER, UMAR most FREE BIRD FLU
August 24, 2006
Metrotvnews.com, Garut: Umar, one of the patients that could be stated positive bird flu had finally been stated by the negative. The citizen of the Tipar Village, Garut West Java, that was free from bird flu after drinking the artificial ingredients his parents. Currently, the adolescent 16 years could beraktivitas like usually. He claimed to be his condition at this time was healthy. Hot high that normally is experienced was lost. However, breathless still was felt because of being the illness that had been suffered by him since childhood.
Umar could be treated in the Hospital Doctor Slamet, Garut. However, he was brought came home by his parents after the nurse refused to give medicine for his face [??]. Since coming home from the hospital, Umar only drank the ingredients that was made by his father, Aup. According to Aup, the ingredients that was made by him to umar was the wild animal mixture and natural plants. His composition in part, cobra bile, the porcupine nest, the red rice, turmeric, and several plants kinds. This material was pounded and diseduh to be drunk by Umar.
Originally this ingredients was only used to treat breathless that had been suffered by Umar since childhood. However, evidently could release Umar from the bird flu virus. Aup also sold this medicine costing Rp 50 thousand [ca. US$5.50] per the package.
http://www.metrotvnews.com/berita.asp?id=22812
Hat-tip, andym!
toggletext-ed from Indonesian:
Take medicine RACIKAN the FATHER, UMAR most FREE BIRD FLU
August 24, 2006
Metrotvnews.com, Garut: Umar, one of the patients that could be stated positive bird flu had finally been stated by the negative. The citizen of the Tipar Village, Garut West Java, that was free from bird flu after drinking the artificial ingredients his parents. Currently, the adolescent 16 years could beraktivitas like usually. He claimed to be his condition at this time was healthy. Hot high that normally is experienced was lost. However, breathless still was felt because of being the illness that had been suffered by him since childhood.
Umar could be treated in the Hospital Doctor Slamet, Garut. However, he was brought came home by his parents after the nurse refused to give medicine for his face [??]. Since coming home from the hospital, Umar only drank the ingredients that was made by his father, Aup. According to Aup, the ingredients that was made by him to umar was the wild animal mixture and natural plants. His composition in part, cobra bile, the porcupine nest, the red rice, turmeric, and several plants kinds. This material was pounded and diseduh to be drunk by Umar.
Originally this ingredients was only used to treat breathless that had been suffered by Umar since childhood. However, evidently could release Umar from the bird flu virus. Aup also sold this medicine costing Rp 50 thousand [ca. US$5.50] per the package.
http://www.metrotvnews.com/berita.asp?id=22812
Richard McC
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Re: INDONESIA - Garut Cluster Part III
Theresa42 said:
ruthbeme
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Re: INDONESIA - Garut Cluster Part III
<TABLE cellSpacing=1 cellPadding=1 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD>So far no bird flu cluster in Indonesian village
</TD></TR><TR><TD class=article-author>Disease/Infection News</TD></TR><TR><TD class=article-date>Published: Thursday, 24-Aug-2006 </TD></TR><TR><TD><!-- Printer Friendly / Email to a Friend Links --><TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 align=right border=0><TBODY><TR><TD width=15></TD><TD>http://www.news-medical.net/print_article.asp?id=19580</TD><TD></TD><TD width=18></TD><TD>
</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE cellSpacing=1 cellPadding=2 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD style="BACKGROUND: url(aspvirtualnews/template_images/smalldot.gif)" height=25></TD></TR><TR><TD>
According to health officials in Indonesia no evidence has been found of human-to-human transmission of H5N1 bird flu in the remote villages of West Java which have witnessed the latest outbreak of the deadly virus.
This has been confirmed by the World Health Organization (WHO).
Two people have died and a third is still ill with the killer virus from villages in Cikelet in the Garut district.
I Nyoman Kandun the health ministry's communicable disease control center director, says investigations have also shown there was no "cluster" cases in the villages.
To date there have been 18 suspected bird flu cases in Cikelet, and five other suspected cases died before swabs were taken to determine the cause of death.
A six-year-old girl was also confirmed positive for H5N1 in Jatiasih district in Bekasi; she developed symptoms on 6 August and was hospitalized on 11 August and remains hospitalized but is recovering.
The source of her infection is currently under investigation and the case takes the nations total for human infection to 62 since June 2005, with 47 fatalities.
Test results are pending for five others receiving medical treatment for symptoms of the disease.
The disease appears to have been brought into Cikelet three months earlier with live chickens purchased from an outside market, and chickens began dying shortly afterwards, with the outbreak spreading through the villages in the area.
Experts are always concerned when there appears to be a cluster of infection occurs i.e. when a group of people are infected from the same source.
Scientists believe cluster cases raise the likelihood of H5N1 mutating into a form easily passed between humans that could spark a global flu pandemic with a the potential to kill millions.
A total of 3,500 poultry had been culled in five areas within a one kilometer radius of Garut and tests have confirmed that half of the poultry were infected by H5N1.
The latest suspected bird flu case is a 61-year-old resident of Cimangke village who is being treated at Hasan Sadikin General Hospital in the West Java capital of Bandung.
It seems many people hide their poultry when government officials come to their houses, despite officials explaining to village and community leaders the importance of the cull.
People are now being offered some compensation for every bird culled and in future the police will accompany inspectors on their rounds.
The Cikelet region of Indonesia`s West Java province is remote and inaccessible and the population have had no experience with the disease, and high-risk behaviors occurred during the disposal of carcasses or the preparation of sick or dead birds for consumption, says the WHO.
In order to contain the virus Indonesian authorities are testing all those who were in contact with the bird flu victims and so far all tests have been returned negative.
The 2,400 people in the area have been provided with Tamiflu, and 2,500 chickens have been culled.
Authorities in Thailand are using a team of 800,000 health volunteers to educate the public about avian influenza and how to prevent it.
The education program will continue for nine days using a door-knock system throughout 30 provinces which have been affected by bird flu.
As the autumnal migration of wild birds begins, governments such as Turkey and the Netherlands are warning their citizens that further avian influenza outbreaks are possible, and that care and diligence should be taken when dealing with dead birds.
As of yesterday, according to the WHO the total number of cases across the world since 2003 are as follows:-
<TABLE cellSpacing=1 cellPadding=1 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD>So far no bird flu cluster in Indonesian village
</TD></TR><TR><TD class=article-author>Disease/Infection News</TD></TR><TR><TD class=article-date>Published: Thursday, 24-Aug-2006 </TD></TR><TR><TD><!-- Printer Friendly / Email to a Friend Links --><TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 align=right border=0><TBODY><TR><TD width=15></TD><TD>http://www.news-medical.net/print_article.asp?id=19580</TD><TD></TD><TD width=18></TD><TD>
</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE cellSpacing=1 cellPadding=2 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD style="BACKGROUND: url(aspvirtualnews/template_images/smalldot.gif)" height=25></TD></TR><TR><TD>
According to health officials in Indonesia no evidence has been found of human-to-human transmission of H5N1 bird flu in the remote villages of West Java which have witnessed the latest outbreak of the deadly virus.
This has been confirmed by the World Health Organization (WHO).
Two people have died and a third is still ill with the killer virus from villages in Cikelet in the Garut district.
I Nyoman Kandun the health ministry's communicable disease control center director, says investigations have also shown there was no "cluster" cases in the villages.
To date there have been 18 suspected bird flu cases in Cikelet, and five other suspected cases died before swabs were taken to determine the cause of death.
A six-year-old girl was also confirmed positive for H5N1 in Jatiasih district in Bekasi; she developed symptoms on 6 August and was hospitalized on 11 August and remains hospitalized but is recovering.
The source of her infection is currently under investigation and the case takes the nations total for human infection to 62 since June 2005, with 47 fatalities.
Test results are pending for five others receiving medical treatment for symptoms of the disease.
The disease appears to have been brought into Cikelet three months earlier with live chickens purchased from an outside market, and chickens began dying shortly afterwards, with the outbreak spreading through the villages in the area.
Experts are always concerned when there appears to be a cluster of infection occurs i.e. when a group of people are infected from the same source.
Scientists believe cluster cases raise the likelihood of H5N1 mutating into a form easily passed between humans that could spark a global flu pandemic with a the potential to kill millions.
A total of 3,500 poultry had been culled in five areas within a one kilometer radius of Garut and tests have confirmed that half of the poultry were infected by H5N1.
The latest suspected bird flu case is a 61-year-old resident of Cimangke village who is being treated at Hasan Sadikin General Hospital in the West Java capital of Bandung.
It seems many people hide their poultry when government officials come to their houses, despite officials explaining to village and community leaders the importance of the cull.
People are now being offered some compensation for every bird culled and in future the police will accompany inspectors on their rounds.
The Cikelet region of Indonesia`s West Java province is remote and inaccessible and the population have had no experience with the disease, and high-risk behaviors occurred during the disposal of carcasses or the preparation of sick or dead birds for consumption, says the WHO.
In order to contain the virus Indonesian authorities are testing all those who were in contact with the bird flu victims and so far all tests have been returned negative.
The 2,400 people in the area have been provided with Tamiflu, and 2,500 chickens have been culled.
Authorities in Thailand are using a team of 800,000 health volunteers to educate the public about avian influenza and how to prevent it.
The education program will continue for nine days using a door-knock system throughout 30 provinces which have been affected by bird flu.
As the autumnal migration of wild birds begins, governments such as Turkey and the Netherlands are warning their citizens that further avian influenza outbreaks are possible, and that care and diligence should be taken when dealing with dead birds.
As of yesterday, according to the WHO the total number of cases across the world since 2003 are as follows:-
- Azerbaijan 8 cases and 6 deaths,
- Cambodia 6 cases and 6 deaths,
- China 21 cases and 14 deaths,
- Djibouti 1 case,
- Egypt 14 cases and 6 deaths,
- Indonesia 60 cases and 46 deaths,
- Iraq 2 cases and 2 deaths,
- Thailand 24 cases and 16 deaths,
- Turkey 12 cases and 4 deaths,
- Vietnam 94 cases and 42 deaths.
Theresa42
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Re: INDONESIA - Garut Cluster Part III
New Garut cluster thread:
http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/showthread.php?t=9612
New Garut cluster thread:
http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/showthread.php?t=9612
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