Indonesia: Human Cases 20 June 2008 to 8 October 2008

[Gert van der Hoek]

Re: Indonesia Human Cases 20th June 2008 +

Re: Indonesia Human Cases 20th June 2008 +

From Sulawesi

[on Thursday, September 18 2008]

Three Bird Flu Suspects Refused to be Checked

MASAMBA - three villagers Mekar Jaya, Mappedeceng, Luwu Utara, South Sulawesi, that to suspect bird flu or avian influenza (AI) refused to be checked further.

The three of them were Wayan Garong, 50; Wayan Jarum, 34; and Ketut Radita, 60. They refused during the team of the doctor RSUD Andi Djemma, Masamba, to carry out the taking of the sample of blood.

In the meantime, till Wednesday (17/9) four the patient suspect other, namely Yudi Astawan, 48; Wayan Jesika, 3 months; Kadek Purniasari, 24; and Komang Yuliani, 22, was still undergoing the maintenance in RSUD Andi Makassau Parepare.

Director RSUD Andi Djemma, Masamba, Marhani Katma said, four patients suspect this bird flu was still being treated in Parepare.

"Three other residents refused to be taken the sample" of "his blood," explained Marhani.

The AI virus emergence or bird flu in the Mekar Jaya Village made the Luwu Utara Regional Government isolate this village.

Thousands of tails of the chicken were it was reported destroyed in order to prevents the spreading of the deadly virus.

http://www.jawapos.co.id/halaman/index.php?act=detail&nid=24830

 

[Commonground]

Re: Indonesia Human Cases 20th June 2008 +

Re: Indonesia Human Cases 20th June 2008 +

There you go. It says isolate the village. Thanks Dutchy. That's the first I've ever heard of a village being isolated. They are up to 1,200 poultry being culled, so it must be pretty serious. And they are checking the blood in poultry from surrounding areas. Of course, isolate the village could also mean no poultry/eggs entering without a certificate.

 

[Commonground]

Re: Indonesia Human Cases 20th June 2008 +

Re: Indonesia Human Cases 20th June 2008 +

In the meantime, till Wednesday (17/9) four the patient suspect other, namely Yudi Astawan, 48; Wayan Jesika, 3 months; Kadek Purniasari, 24; and Komang Yuliani, 22, was still undergoing the maintenance in RSUD Andi Makassau Parepare.

This must be a typo, because Yudi Astawan is not 48 years old. She/he is 4 years old.

 

[Commonground]

Re: Indonesia Human Cases 20th June 2008 +

Re: Indonesia Human Cases 20th June 2008 +

Four of Transmigran Bali Suspect Flu Burung
(on September 18 2008, 3 x, Comment)

PAREPARE -- four residents of the transmigrant from Luwu Utara (Lutra) from Bali underwent the intensive maintenance in the Intensive Care Unit (UGD) the Daerah Public Hospital (RSUD) Andi Makkasau, Parepare, on Tuesday September 16. The four of them terindikasi suspect flu burung.Keempat the resident was their respective, Yudi, five years, the Puppet, 2.5 years, Komang, 22 years, and Kadek Purwaningsih, 26 years. Beforehand, they received the maintenance in RSU Masamba and underwent the maintenance a day before was reconciled to Parepare. Komang that was met in UGD stated together three residents from the same village as him that experienced the fever after dozens of tails of his poultry that died suddenly. Later this poultry was it was considered positive bird flu. "By the official" of "local animal husbandry, we were appealed to to undergo the maintenance in Masamba that afterwards was reconciled to Parepare," said Komang. The staff UGD RSUD Andi Makkasau, Amir Hudong stated the four residents were not yet positive terjangkit bird flu. On average their fever achieved 36 levels and was not accompanied by the cough. "If bird flu, his fever on 38 levels," obviously him.

http://cetak.fajar.co.id/news.php?newsid=75655

 

[Gert van der Hoek]

Re: Indonesia Human Cases 20th June 2008 +

Re: Indonesia Human Cases 20th June 2008 +

The patients in hospital seem to do OK.

Apparently a reporter talked to one of the patients in the ICU.

 

[Giuseppe]

Re: Indonesia - Bird Flu

Re: Indonesia - Bird Flu

Bird flu claims hundreds of chickens in Merangin regency | The Jakarta Post
Bird flu claims hundreds of chickens in Merangin regency
Jon Afrizal , The Jakarta Post , Jambi | Sat, 09/20/2008 11:37 AM | The Archipelago

Hundreds of dead chickens discovered a few days ago in Merangin regency, Jambi, have been infected by avian flu, an official confirmed Friday.


Head of Merangin's husbandry agency Imam Budi Cahyono said his agency had conducted a rapid test on the chickens in Antak Seribu village and found the animals were infected with the disease.

"Our participatory disease surveillance team concluded the dead chickens were infected by avian flu," Imam said, adding the team had fumigated several areas in the village to prevent the virus from spreading.

The husbandry agency plans to implement focal culling measures for domestic birds living in a one-kilometer radius of the area where the dead chickens were first discovered, he said.

According to Imam, bird flu is endemic to Lantak Seribu, as a similar outbreak took place there last year.

"Basically, we're asking residents to conduct the culling themselves. If we do it, we'll have to get permission from the owners first," he added.
Residents should fumigate with bath soap once or twice a week to prevent the virus from spreading, he said.

"Using bath soap for fumigating is effective. Residents can't just rely on disinfectant, as there is not enough in stock."

Although the chickens are believed to have died at the beginning of Ramadan, the agency only received word of it a few days ago, Imam added.He called on residents to report any dead chickens to the husbandry agency.

"They have to come to our office. Don't just call us because we won't be able to verify the report," he said.

Residents of Antak Seribu village said they already suspected the same virus from two years was once again responsible for killing their chickens.
"We're afraid the bird flu has come back, just like in 2006," said Wandi, a villager.

No human fatalities have been reported in the village in connection with the virus. So far this year, there have been 101 bird flu-related deaths nationwide, with the majority occurring in Jakarta, West Java and Banten.
--
<CITE cite=http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2008/09/20/bird-flu-claims-hundreds-chickens-merangin-regency.html>Bird flu claims hundreds of chickens in Merangin regency | The Jakarta Post</CITE>

 

[Laidback Al]

Re: Indonesia - Bird Flu

Re: Indonesia - Bird Flu

No human fatalities have been reported in the village in connection with the virus. So far this year, there have been 101 bird flu-related deaths nationwide, with the majority occurring in Jakarta, West Java and Banten.

This report of 101 bird flu-related deaths in <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-comffice:smarttags" /><st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1lace w:st="on">Indonesia</st1lace></st1:country-region> is at odds with the official WHO fatality count. According to WHO, as of September 10th, there have only been 17 fatalities from bird flu in all of <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1lace w:st="on">Indonesia</st1lace></st1:country-region> so far this year. The disparity between WHO and this news article of an 84 additional bird flu deaths raises concerns about the transparency and timely reporting of human H5N1 cases in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1lace w:st="on">Indonesia</st1lace></st1:country-region>.
<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-comfficeffice" /><o></o>

 

[sharon sanders]

Re: Indonesia Human Cases 20th June 2008 +

Re: Indonesia Human Cases 20th June 2008 +

The 101 number could be a typo, but the WHO number for total deaths is 112. A typo might be 102 - not 101, for cumulative deaths in Indonesia?


Avian influenza – situation in Indonesia – update 44

10 September 2008 -- The Ministry of Health of Indonesia has retrospectively announced two confirmed cases of human infection with the H5N1 avian influenza virus. The first case, a 38 year old male from Tangerang Municipality, Banten Province developed symptoms on 4 July 2008, was hospitalized on 9 July and died on 10 July. There were free roaming poultry throughout his neighbourhood, including a commercial poultry pen owned by a neighbour.
The second case, a 20 year old male from Tangerang District, Banten Province developed symptoms on 20 July, was hospitalized on 29 July, and died on 31 July. Reports indicate that chickens from the case's household had died in the week preceding the onset of his symptoms and that he had slaughtered and consumed some of his stock during this period.
Of the 137 cases confirmed to date in Indonesia, 112 have been fatal.

http://www.who.int/csr/don/2008_09_10/en/index.html

 

[Commonground]

Re: Indonesia Human Cases 20th June 2008 +

Re: Indonesia Human Cases 20th June 2008 +

Yes, a typo. That was my first thought...

 

[Diane Morin]

Re: Indonesia Human Cases 20th June 2008 +

Re: Indonesia Human Cases 20th June 2008 +

Here also it is an error of typography? That two errors on the calculation of the cases in two days. Odd?


"Look at bird flu. How many people? Eight hundred people total have been affected since we started counting years ago. It is minuscule," Palmer said.

http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/showthread.php?p=180527#post180527

 

[Gert van der Hoek]

Re: Indonesia Human Cases 20th June 2008 +

Re: Indonesia Human Cases 20th June 2008 +

It is not the first time reports from Jakarta Post are confusing or wrong in numbers.

Probably someone wanted to type: 110.

 

[Shiloh]

Re: Indonesia Human Cases 20th June 2008 +

Re: Indonesia Human Cases 20th June 2008 +

Source: http://old.thejakartapost.com/detailnational.asp?fileid=20080924.H03&irec=2

Bird flu cases down, but pandemic looms

Erwida Maulia, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta

Indonesia must continue preparing for a bird flu pandemic, despite reports suggesting declines in cases of bird-to-human and bird-to-bird infections, health officials said Tuesday.

Erna Tresnaningsih, the Health Ministry's director for animal-vector diseases, said the confirmed number of humans infected by the H5N1 virus in Indonesia this year was 20 as of August, with 17 fatalities.

This is a decline, she claimed, from 55 cases with 45 fatalities in 2006 and 42 cases with 37 fatalities in 2007.

Indonesia has recorded a total of 137 confirmed bird-to-human infections, 112 of them fatal, since July 2005, when H5N1 was first found to attack humans.

Erna added 12 of the country's 33 provinces had recorded infections in humans, but seven of the provinces saw no new cases in the past year, leaving incidents of bird flu infections concentrated in West Sumatra, Banten, Jakarta, West Java and Central Java.

"Praise be to God, with good partnership we've been able to push the figures," she told a forum on boosting businesses' preparedness for a possible bird flu pandemic.

Muhammad Azhar, the Agriculture Ministry's avian influenza control unit coordinator, reported a declining trend in the number of poultry infected by the H5N1 virus.

He said poultry in 31 provinces had been infected by H5N1, with only Gorontalo and North Maluku free from the virus, but added that nine of the provinces had not reported any new cases in the past six months.

"Areas still at risk are those on Java Island, because it is the main producer of both pedigree and non-pedigree chickens," Azhar said.

Despite the declining number of infections, Indonesia has to be alert to the possibility of a bird flu pandemic, which, once it breaks out, could infect up to 66 million people, the Health Ministry warned.

Emil Agustiono, deputy to the coordinating minister for people's welfare, said a bird flu pandemic was unpredictable, but could happen through either the breeding of the H5N1 avian influenza virus with the H3N2/H1N1 human influenza virus, or through the mutation of the H5N1 virus in the human body.

Both processes could produce a new type of deadly, transmittable human-to-human influenza virus, which could then lead to a new influenza pandemic, he said.

Subhash Salunke, the World Health Organization's (WHO) representative to Indonesia, warned that once the pandemic struck, Indonesia would see an overwhelming of health care services, the collapse of critical public services, workforce absenteeism, public fear and panic, and the closure of borders, travel and trade.

He said Indonesia could suffer from economic losses of US$1.4 billion if the pandemic lasted six months, or up to $5.8 billion if it lasted a year.

Salunke emphasized the need for preparedness and intervention in the case of a pandemic, so as to minimize its severity, adding that if a new flu pandemic did strike, it could cause 160-300 million deaths globally.

Alan Boulton, the International Labor Organization's (ILO) Indonesia country director, said if employers wanted their businesses to keep running during such a pandemic, they would have to start preparing their workplaces and developing business continuity plans involving their employees.

 

[Commonground]

Re: Indonesia Human Cases 20th June 2008 +

Re: Indonesia Human Cases 20th June 2008 +

1 Patient Suspect Bird Flu Dirawat
Wednesday, October 08 2008

Padang, Padek -- RSUP M. Djamil Padang again received the patient who was expected suffered suspect bird flu. This patient had the initials ?RD?, 12, suffered the high fever on Monday (6/10), ended contact with the not old chicken afterwards died. Anticipated the worst possibility, at this time the patient from the Puar River,

The resident of this Puar Kabupaten Agam River was reconciled directly from the Sungai Puar Agam Community Health Centre because he suffered the high fever, with the temperature of the body 42 Celsius levels. For a long time did not end contact, during the day him six nonpedigreed chickens suddenly died. Even so tomorrow his day, three nonpedigreed chickens belonging to his neighbour also suddenly died. This Agam regency received the maintenance in the room of the isolation RSUP M. Djamil Padang. Moreover six nonpedigreed chickens his pen was under the patient's house. ?Hingga at this time indeed not yet clear whether the patient suffered bird flu, but to anticipate the worst possibility, therefore we decided to give the maintenance in the room of the isolation.

The last condition for the patient still in the supervision of the paediatrician to be carried out by the inspection, but till at this time this child did not suffer breathless, so as to be not given oksigen,? said the Head of the Layanan Medis RSUP Field M. Djamil Padang, Irayanti Mudrika when being contacted Padang Ekspres, yesterday

Observation Padang Ekspres from outside the room, this patient only used the mask. In fact the patient suspect bird flu beforehand used oxygen, the infusion as well as the family that were waiting to use the early protection implement (apd). The patient tanpak fell asleep twisted in the room of the Irna C Penyakit Dalam RSUP isolation M. Djamil Padang. Isolasi space: the Patient suspect bird flu, ?RD? was treated in isolation space RSUP M. Djamil Padang, yesterday. Further Irayanti said at this time the patient was in the supervision of the paediatrician. In accordance with the procedure penangan the patient suspect bird flu then in the near future immediately was held by the inspection of the patient's blood. To know whether indeed the patient was attacked by the virus avian influenza. Whereas about the temperature of the patient's body, according to the IRA, the temperature 42 levels celsius really quite high. However for his assurance indeed must through the testing of the blood test.

http://www.padangekspres.co.id/content/view/19721/1/

 

[Farmer]

Re: Indonesia Human Cases 20th June 2008 +

Re: Indonesia Human Cases 20th June 2008 +

Padang is the capital of West Sumatra on the west coast of the island of Sumatra.

 

[Commonground]

Re: Indonesia Human Cases 20th June 2008 +

Re: Indonesia Human Cases 20th June 2008 +

Sragen, Central Java

08-October-2008 17:30
the Patient suspect AI in Moewardi died

Solo (Expose)--- the Resident Tlebu, Jengkani, of Mondokan, Sragen, Idawati, 22, had finally blown out the last breath after underwent treated inap around 11 hours in the Daerah Public Hospital (RSUD) Moewardi Solo, on Wednesday (8/10). The Idawati death was expected strong the reason was attacked by the bird flu illness or avian influenza (AI). Information that was assembled Expose said, the patient was reconciled to RSUD Moewardi direct from Sragen on Tuesday (7/10) struck 20,00 of WIB. Korban was brought to the room of the serious installation the emergency (IGD) in the critical condition, that is experienced breathless, the fever, and the awareness descended. However, keesokan him, on Wednesday (8/10) struck 07,50 WIB, casualties evidently has died after the RSUD side diagnosed the patient. After dying, the patient was at once brought came home by his family. Responded to that, the Chairman the team of the handling of the bird flu illness, Dr Reviono justified this incident. His side admitted to be able to not do many reasons when being reconciled to RSUD Moewardi the condition for the patient has been critical. "From several signs" of the "illness that" was checked, we concluded the patient's illness tended to bird flu." But, because of the condition already serious so yes was not helped, said Reviono when being met Expose in his office, on Wednesday. Moreover, he said, the patient also experienced the internal disease complication apart from bird flu, in part failed the breath and the lungs were full infiltrat. "So, had signs" of the "inflammation also." It was clear that the condition for the illness very much the complication, obviously him.

http://www.solopos.com/berita.php?ct=14369&d1=kota_solo
hat-tip Treyfish

 

[Farmer]

Re: Indonesia Human Cases 20th June 2008 +

Re: Indonesia Human Cases 20th June 2008 +

Sragen is in central Java.

 

[Laidback Al]

Re: Indonesia Human Cases 20th June 2008 +

Re: Indonesia Human Cases 20th June 2008 +

Please post to the new Indonesia: Human cases thread:

http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/showthread.php?t=82375