Indonesia - Human cases, July & August 2007

[Gert van der Hoek]

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Indonesian woman is first bird flu death on Bali

13 Aug 2007 07:07:36 GMT

More (Recasts with confirmation of virus after second test)

By Mita Valina Liem,

JAKARTA, Aug 13 (Reuters) - An Indonesian woman has died of bird flu in Bali, the first human death from the virus on the resort island hugely popular with foreign tourists.

A health ministry official said on Monday the 29-year-old woman came from west Bali. She died on Sunday in hospital after suffering from high fever.

Her five-year-old daughter also died recently after playing with chickens but it was unclear if the girl died of bird flu.

Joko Suyono of the ministry's bird flu centre said a 2-year-old girl living close by had also developed bird flu symptoms, but was recovering in hospital. Test results had not come back yet.

News of the woman's death will be a blow to Bali, which is the centre of Indonesia's tourism industry and has been trying to shake off the impact of several deadly bomb attacks by Islamic militants in recent years.

The woman from a village in the district of Jembrana was suffering from a high fever before dying of multiple organ failure, said Ken Wirasandi, a doctor at the Sanglah hospital in the Balinese capital Denpasar.

Suyono said by telephone a second laboratory test had confirmed the woman had the H5N1 bird flu virus.

Suyono said there had been sick chickens around the woman's house and many had died suddenly in recent weeks.

"The villagers didn't burn the carcasses. Instead they buried them or fed them to pigs," Suyono added.

Contact with sick fowl is the most common way for humans to contract the H5N1 virus.

The woman had started showing symptoms more than a week ago, but was only admitted to hospital six days later.

She was transferred to a bigger hospital in Denpasar on Friday, where she was treated in the isolation unit, Suyono said.

He said initial investigations indicated last month the daughter had become sick after playing with chickens and died a week later.

"We were unable to retrieve any tissue samples, so we can't confirm whether she died of bird flu," Suyono added.

Bird flu is endemic in bird populations in most parts of Indonesia. In Bali, as in the rest of the country, millions of backyard chickens live in close proximity with people.

Experts fear if the virus develops the ability to pass easily between humans, millions might die in a pandemic.

Indonesia has had 82 confirmed human deaths from bird flu, the highest for any country in the world.

Not including the latest death, there have been 319 confirmed human cases and 192 deaths globally, according to World Health Organisation data.

The predominantly Hindu island in mostly Muslim Indonesia is starting to recover after suicide bombers killed 20 people in October, 2005. The attacks came after more than 200 died in nightclub bombings in late 2002.

The island regularly hosts large international conventions and is due to hold an important U.N. climate change conference in December in which about 10,000 people are expected to attend.

According to government data, tourist arrivals in Bali rose 34 percent to 781,059 in the first half of 2007 from a year ago.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/SP299311.htm

 

[Gert van der Hoek]

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Two bird flu deaths on Bali confirmed

August 13, 2007 - 5:21PM


An Indonesian woman and her five-year-old daughter on the tourist island of Bali have died of bird flu, a Health Ministry official confirmed today, bringing the nation's toll to 83.

The deaths are the first on Bali, where the deadly H5N1 strain of the virus was found more than a year ago.

The 29-year-old woman from the northwest of the island, far from the major tourist centres, died yesterday, while her daughter died on August 3, said Bayu Krisnamurti, head of Indonesia's national bird flu commission.

"Both people are positive, from (tests at) the Eikman Institute and the health ministry's lab," he told a news briefing.

In Indonesia two tests must be returned positive before a human infection is confirmed.

Another young girl, a two-year-old neighbour of the victims, was admitted to hospital yesterday and was also suspected of being infected, Krisnamurti said.

Joko, from the Bird Flu Information Centre in Jakarta, said that chickens had died in the victims' neighbourhood of bird flu recently.

Indonesia reported its first human bird flu case in July 2005 and has since confirmed 81 deaths, the highest number of any nation.

Scientists worry the bird flu virus could mutate into a form easily spread among humans, leading to a global pandemic with the potential to kill millions.

Infected poultry was first found on the northwest of Bali last year, when hundreds of birds were culled but no human infections were found

http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/more-bird-flu-deaths/2007/08/13/1186857414959.html

 

[Gert van der Hoek]

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13/08/2007 13:39 WIB

Suspect Bird Flu Died

Governor Bali Acknowledged Robbed


Gede Suardana - detikcom

Denpasar - the Case of the death of the patient suspect bird flu in RSU Sanglah, Denpasar, made Balinese Governor Dewa Made Bratha concerned.
According to him, the Balinese Provincial Government has been robbed.

The statement was sent by Bratha after joining the plenary meeting in DPRD Bali, Street Sutomo, Denpasar, Bali, on Monday (12/8/2007).

"We were beforehand praised by the centre because of the handling" of "bird flu that was carried out by us best in Indonesia."

But we are robbed now, said Bratha.

Bratha also criticised the achievement of Livestock Breeding and the Kesehatan - Health Service of the Service local.

Uptil now was second this agency not all that gave complete information.
"Uptil Now we did not yet receive matter information" of the "death" of the "poultry."

Kenyataanya had several poultries that died, how come did not have the report, said Bratha.

Bratha ordered the related agency immediately to follow up this case.

Officially Peternakan and the Kesehatan - Health Service were asked immediately to enter to the Dangin Tukad Aye Village, Kecamatan Negara, Kabupaten Jembrana, the patient's residence suspect this bird flu.

"I asked for the community in a radius of 1 km from casualties's house was researched."

The livestock like birds and the chicken also must be sacrificed or burnt.
Compensation was not yet thought about by us, it was important the healthy community previously, said Bratha.

Bratha also commented the matter of the traffic of the livestock animal.
According to him, the Provincial Government will more tighten the flow went out entered the livestock animal to Bali.

The patient suspect bird flu of Ni Luh Putu Tri Widyani (29) died on Sunday August 12.

Widyani blew out the last breath after being treated for 3 days in RSU Sanglah.

http://www.detiknews.com/index.php/...8/tgl/13/time/133937/idnews/816519/idkanal/10

 

[Gert van der Hoek]

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08/13/07 13:39

Indonesia confirms two more bird flu deaths, on Bali

Jakarta (ANTARA) - An Indonesian woman and her five-year-old daughter on the tourist island of Bali have died of bird flu, a health ministry official confirmed Monday, bringing the nation's toll to 83.

The deaths are the first on Bali, where the deadly H5N1 strain of the virus was found more than a year ago.

The 29-year-old woman from the northwest of the island, far from the major tourist centres, died on Sunday, while her daughter died on August 3, said Bayu Krisnamurti, head of Indonesia's national bird flu commission.

"Both people are positive, from (tests at) the Eikman Institute and the health ministry's lab," he was quoted by AFP as telling a press briefing.

In Indonesia, two tests must be returned positive before a human infection is confirmed.

A two-year-old girl, a neighbour of the victims, was admitted to hospital on Sunday and is also suspected of being infected, he said.

Joko, from the Bird Flu Information Centre in Jakarta, said that chickens had died in the victims' neighbourhood of bird flu recently.

Indonesia reported its first human bird flu case in July 2005 and has since confirmed 81 deaths, the highest number of any nation.

Scientists worry the bird flu virus could mutate into a form easily spread among humans, leading to a global pandemic with the potential to kill millions.

Infected poultry was first found on the northwest of Bali last year, when hundreds of birds were culled but no human infections were found. (*)

http://www.antara.co.id/en/arc/2007/8/13/indonesia-confirms-two-more-bird-flu-deaths-on-bali/

 

[Gert van der Hoek]

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Sudden death of Indonesian woman confirmed to be from bird flu

Jakarta - An Indonesian woman who died after being admitted to a hospital on Bali tested positive for the H5N1 avian influenza virus on Monday, the country's world-worst 82nd fatality and first on the popular resort island, a senior health official said.

The 29-year-old woman, identified only as SW, died on Sunday after being admitted to the Sanglah Hospital in Denpasar, the island's capital, last Friday, said Nyoman Kandun, director-general for communicable diseases at the Indonesian Health Ministry in Jakarta.

"She had been exposed to dead chickens," he told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa. "Our team is now in the field to conduct the necessary measures to contain" the virus and examine anyone who had close contact with the victim, he said.

The woman, the 82nd death from 103 cases nationwide, was from Tukadaya village in West Java, and was Indonesia's first bird flu fatality in more than a month.

"The team will collect blood samples from those with close contact - family members and others," Kandun said, "just to make sure there is no human-to-human (transmission) or whether there is human-to-human (transmission)."

Most bird flu victims globally have had direct or indirect contact with sick birds, but scientists fear the virus could mutate into a form that is easily transmissible among humans, sparking a global pandemic that could kill millions.

Most of Indonesia's bird flu cases have been in West Java and South Sumatra, but Kandun said he was not surprised to see one surface on Bali, after previously seeing it pop up on Sulawesi, another heavily-populated central Indonesian island.

"It's dense population meets with dense animal population," he said. "We expected Bali would (eventually) have it."

Kandun said he hoped the initial death on Bali would not affect tourism, as he said Bali's health department was fully prepared to handle bird flu cases and also restricts the import of animals.

Bali's tourism industry is trying to recover from terrorist attacks by Islamic militants in 2002 and 2005, and arrivals during the current high season have exceeded expectations.

"Why be afraid to go to Bali?" Kandun said. "Bali has had bombs and people still go there."

http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/92886.html

 

[Richard McC]

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The woman, the 82nd death from 103 cases nationwide, was from Tukadaya village in West Java, and was Indonesia's first bird flu fatality in more than a month.

West Java is a mistake, right?

 

[Gert van der Hoek]

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West Java is a mistake, right?

Not sure, but what I understand is, the woman originates from Java, but lived in a village in Bali. The reporter is not very clear in the quoted article.

 

[Commonground]

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Picture shows a person (nurse?) putting Ni Kadek Putu Narayani into a vehicle (ambulance?). The girl seems to be pretty unresponsive, and the nurse is not in full protective gear. So, this is how she was delivered to the hospital.
http://www.seputar-indonesia.com/edisicetak/berita-utama/balita-suspect.html

Ni Kadek Putu Narayani, pre-schoolers who were expected suspect bird flu when arriving in RSUP Sanglah, Denpasar, in the afternoon yesterday.
Pre-schoolers were 2.9 months old from the Dangin Tukad Aya Village, Kec the Jembrana country was run off with to RSUP Sanglah after beforehand two local residents were killed resulting from the similar virus.

 

[Commonground]

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Here is another pic showing the baby as unresponsive:

http://www.balipost.com/

kasus flu bird in bali cluster possibility

Jakarta--miol : flu bird case that engulfed two of soul sacrifice in bali case a chance cluster. This case poison new dipastikan if a lainnya pasien yaitu old balita 2 years nine months that still fare treatment have proved positive mengidap h5n1 virus.
Such a thing said pelaksana boss daily national komite flu running bird and kesiapsiagaan menghadapi influensa pandemi (fbpi komnas) krisnamurthi breeze in jakarta, senin (13 / 8 ).
This seconds rsud sanglah, denpasar attend kadek ni narayani putu. That balita attended since this kemerin week comes from country same with luh and ni sw putu, 29, and candle, 5, mother and child that died flu bird karena. Ketiganya comes from orchards tukad iciness aya, jembrana, bali.

" i hear, a state of ni kadek even membaik justru. Mudah-mudahan not flu bird symptoms, " hope breeze.
The minister of kesehatan siti fadilah own supari through message pendeknya expressed when kadek ni also positive terpapar flu bird, have this possibility is cluster case flu bird.
Breeze increased, flu bird penanganan in bali is wrong a that most-intensive in indonesia. " bali is district that closed for bird from outside since two years ago. Karantinanya even bitter. But still many bird penyelundupan through district headless terpantau, " tandasnya.
More far, breeze spoke incident this sha not do stilly bali from turis. " jakarta again and again happens flu bird case of mankind, but foreign turis still come, " jawabnya.
Namun, the panel of member members flu bird c. a. nidom judged bali karena as nucleus pariwisata race, sebaiknya do not take resiko. " immediate do bird annihilation, and give kompensasi with any justice, " tegasnya.
While the, fkh personnel universitas udayana bali and members the panel of member flu bird mahrdika i. g. n expressed, h5n1 virus has is in bali since 2003. " so have not got queer, only live wait time just. If have not got people who are get the strange new, " paparnya.

Predicated rt-pcr examination product laboratorium perusal and expansion departemen kesehatan kesehatan and laboratorium eijkman, jakarta, luh ni putu dipastikan positive mengidap flu bird virus (h5n1). It died week world kemarin. While candle, died last 3 agustus.
Deterrent dirjen disease and penyehatan lingkungan I depkes kandun nyoman expressed tim from depkes is dispatched leads to jembrana. This is case flu first bird of mankind that happen in bali.

Translation Site: http://utmk.cs.usm.my:8080/ebmt-controller/index.jsp
http://www.mediaindonesia.com/berita.asp?id=140302

 

[Gert van der Hoek]

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http://www.metrotvnews.com/berita.asp?id=43819


Metrotvnews. com, sanglah : predicated early tes, dokter tim pain house (rs) sanglah pasien mendiagnosa terduga flu bird new entered, sunday (12 /8 ) kemarin, not detailed to attack avian virus influensa or flu bird. Name pasien kade ni this narayani putri entered pain house sanglah with symptoms like flu bird sufferer.
It stated terduga flu bird karena is dangin warga aya tukat, negare kecamatan, kabupaten jembrana. The village is ground ditemukan the dead bird sudden and wrong a warganya, nyoman ni sw, kemarin sunday died also anticipated terpapar flu bird virus.
Examiner tim flu bird pain house sanglah expressed, has did early tes serangkaian. Hasilnya, pasien only suffered normal flu. While sample blood and gunge pasien has taken and dikirimkan to jakarta. namun, karena have not certitude, pasien still treated as terduga flu bird

The report from MetroTV was translated in post # 80 .

 

[Theresa42]

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Hat-tip, Carol@SC!

Bird flu death in Bali
PM - Monday, 13 August , 2007 18:26:00
Reporter: Peter Cave

MARK COLVIN: Indonesia has recorded another death from bird flu, this time on the resort island of Bali, the centre of the country's tourist industry. The 29-year-old woman from a village in western Bali had a high fever when she was admitted to hospital. She died yesterday from multiple organ failure.

The Indonesian Health Minister now says a second laboratory test has confirmed initial fears the woman contracted the deadly H5N1 strain of the virus. The woman's five-year-old daughter also died recently after playing with chickens, but it's unclear if bird flu was responsible.

And a two-year-old girl, a neighbour of the victims, was admitted to hospital on Sunday, and is also suspected of being infected. Indonesia has now recorded 82 human deaths from bird flu, that's the highest for any country in the world, but this is the first time that Bali has figured in the statistics.

Our Correspondent Peter Cave joins us on the line now from Jakarta.

(to Peter Cave) Are Indonesian authorities saying that this is isolated, this outbreak?

PETER CAVE: Well, clearly they're concerned about the affect that this might have on the tourist industry of Bali, which has recovered by something like 30 per cent in the last six months. And what they have been saying specifically is that the outbreak is in a village on the western side of Bali, it's a place that tourists don't go.

They're also saying that when the woman, her daughter, and the two-year-old neighbour were brought to the Sanglah Hospital in Bali, the main hospital in Bali, that they were immediately put into isolation. So, there is no danger to foreign tourists. That may or not be the case.

MARK COLVIN: She lived ? she didn't live in the tourist areas of Bali I understand, but it does appear that there are concerns that the chickens, the infected chickens may have entered the food chain. How come?

PETER CAVE: Well, what's worrying the authorities - and this has been stated by the doctors of the National Bird Flu Centre here in Jakarta - is that to what the people in this village were apparently doing, instead of when they had an outbreak of infected chickens, and there have been several outbreaks in Bali of birds and chickens contracting the disease over the past year, what they were doing was feeding them to pigs, the sick and the dying chickens, rather than burning them as they're required to do by law.

Now, the worry there is that if the infected chickens are fed to pigs, this could provide a vector, a conduit for the disease to mutate, and affect humans. And that's of particular concern to the National Centre, and that's of particular concern to the National Centre, and that's one of the reasons, as we speak, they're heading there now to close off this village and completely isolate it.

MARK COLVIN: Yes, and they must be worried. What are the ramifications for Indonesia if there was a big outbreak?

PETER CAVE: Well, as you said in your intro, Indonesia has suffered more cases of bird flu than anywhere else. So far there have been a couple of suspected human to human transmissions, but what the Indonesians, what indeed the world are worried about at the moment is this disease turns into a mutated virus that could start a human pandemic.

And that's always the worry, and as I said, is complicated in this fact? this case, by the fact that these chickens have been fed to pigs. Obviously, the Indonesians are also concerned about the tourism industry in Bali. It's a major, it's a major tourist centre. So far, tourists haven't been put off by the news of mass culls of chicken on the remote parts of the island.

They may well be more concerned once they hear news that a 29-year-old woman and her five-year-old daughter and a two-year-old neighbour have all now been confirmed by the national laboratory in Jakarta as suffering from that deadly, deadly form of bird flu.

And what they're going to try now is try to prove conclusively that all three of those people had direct contact with either dead or sick chickens, and that the disease wasn't passed from one human to another human.

MARK COLVIN: What have they said publicly? Has there been any public comment?

PETER CAVE: Look, the National Centre held a news conference just a short while ago.

We spoke to Bayu Krishnamurti, who is chairman of the National Bird Flu Centre:

BAYU KRISHNAMURTI: Yes, this is the first time for human, yeah. These is confirmed cases of human in Bali for Avian Influenza, 29-years-old woman from (inaudible), Jembrana, Bali. Their history with contact with chicken, and until now the virus is still a chicken virus that's been infected to humans.

We already did every necessary to contain the situations. Now, the team of national committee and (inaudible) is already in the field to handle the case.

MARK COLVIN: That's Bayu Krishnamurti, head of Indonesia's National Bird Flu Commission. And Peter Cave was our reporter.

http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2007/s2004006.htm

 

[Theresa42]

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Note that the reporter from Jakarta said:

They may well be more concerned once they hear news that a 29-year-old woman and her five-year-old daughter and a two-year-old neighbour have all now been confirmed by the national laboratory in Jakarta as suffering from that deadly, deadly form of bird flu.

 

[Laidback Al]

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Note that the reporter from Jakarta said:

They may well be more concerned once they hear news that a 29-year-old woman and her five-year-old daughter and a two-year-old neighbour have all now been confirmed by the national laboratory in Jakarta as suffering from that deadly, deadly form of bird flu.

Dutchy's post #80 above reports that the child tested negative.

 

[HenryN]

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Note that the reporter from Jakarta said:

Yes, this is the second media report indicating that the mother and child neighbor have been H5N1 confirmed in Jakarta.

 

[Theresa42]

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Hat-tip, christian!

Bali bird flu deaths spark tourism fears
Kate Benson and Mark Forbes in Jakarta
August 14, 2007

Australian health officials are on alert after a deadly outbreak of bird flu on the Indonesian tourist island of Bali.

The finding is another blow to Indonesia's tourism industry, still struggling to recover from the 2002 and 2005 Bali bombings.

Ni Luh Putu Sri Windiani, from north-western Bali, became the island's first human victim of bird flu after she died of multiple organ failure on Sunday.

Doctors at the Sanglah Hospital in Denpasar confirmed last night that the 29-year-old Indonesian woman had tested positive to the H5N1 strain of bird flu.

Ms Windiani's daughter, Dian, 5, died suffering from similar symptoms at the same hospital 11 days ago after playing with sick chickens outside their house, but experts are unable to determine if she had bird flu.

It is also unclear whether Ms Windiani contracted bird flu from the chickens or from her daughter. She started showing symptoms more than a week ago, but was admitted to hospital six days later. She was transferred to Denpasar on Friday and treated in the isolation unit.

Australian officials said they were closely monitoring the investigation into the deaths.

It is unlikely there would be any immediate warnings for up to 5000 Australians now on the island, because the infections occurred in a relatively remote area, hours away from tourist precincts.

Australia's travel advisory already warns of the risk of bird flu in Indonesia, but states the danger to short-term visitors is relatively low.

A spokesman from the Bird Flu Information Centre in Jakarta, Joko Suyono, said many chickens around Ms Windiani's house had died suddenly in recent weeks.

"The villagers didn't burn the carcasses. Instead, they buried them or fed them to pigs," he said.

The deputy director of the World Health Organisation's Collaborating Centre for Reference and Research on Influenza, Ian Barr, said yesterday there was no need to panic.

"Most of these cases occur in villages, not in downtown Kuta or Denpasar, so I'm not sure that travellers should be too concerned."

A spokeswoman for the Department of Health and Ageing, Kay McNiece, said travellers to any bird flu-affected country should steer clear of birds and should practise good hygiene.

About 150,000 Australians visited Bali in the first half of this year, according to Indonesia's Statistics Bureau.

Indonesia reported its first human bird flu case in July 2005, and Ms Windiani's death raises the official toll to 82, the highest in the world.

Chairman of the Bali Tourism Board I B Ngurah Wijaya called for immediate Government action to prevent an outbreak of the disease. Any importation of poultry from other parts of Indonesia must be closely monitored, he said.

Twenty-one Indonesians diagnosed with the disease have survived.

http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/ba...k-tourism-fears/2007/08/13/1186857427632.html

 

[Gert van der Hoek]

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News reports contributing the death of the daughter of the deceased women to BF come from AFP; this reports mentions a possible source.
Guess we wil never know for sure if it was BF or not for the child.

"Both people are positive, from (tests at) the Eikman Institute and the health ministry's lab," he was quoted by AFP as telling a press briefing.

http://www.antara.co.id/en/arc/2007/8/13/indonesia-confirms-two-more-bird-flu-deaths-on-bali/

See post # 84 if the link is gone.

It looks good for the child of the neighbours: recovering.


Aussie officials monitoring deadly bird flu outbreak in Bali

13th August 2007, 18:45 WST



Health experts have converged on a Balinese village after a woman died from the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu, which is also being blamed for her daughter's death.

A second young girl - aged two, and a neighbour of the dead woman - is in hospital, suspected of having contracted the virus.

Indonesian officials said woman, who died in a Denpasar hospital yesterday, was the first confirmed human case of H5N1 on the resort island.

They said everything possible was being done to prevent further infections in Bali, where hundreds of thousands of Australian and other foreign tourists go to holiday each year.

Australian authorities are closely monitoring the situation.

The head of Indonesia's bird flu commission, Bayu Krisnamurti, said two tests on samples taken from the 29-year-old victim confirmed she had H5N1.

“Both (tests) are positive, from the Eikman Institute and the health ministry's lab,” Krisnamurti told reporters.

He said officials from the UN's World Health Organisation and Food and Agriculture Organisation as well as national health and agriculture ministries were at the woman's village.

The village, Dauh Tukad Aya, in the northwest, is far from Bali's tourism centres, but Krisnamurti said authorities were not taking any chances.

“We'll do intensive monitoring. The central government will help the Balinese government get Bali free of bird flu,” Krisnamurti said.

“We will do the most intensive measures in Bali as it is a tourism and international destination.”

Ningrum (who uses one name) - a doctor from the Bird Flu Information Centre - said the dead woman's five-year-old daughter died on August 3, likely from H5N1.

She was “diagnosed as suffering from pneumonia, and chickens which died at the house were positively infected with bird flu,” she said.

“From the symptoms and the dead birds, we can assume that the child also had bird flu,” she told AFP.

However no samples were taken for testing.

Siadi Purniti, who is treating the sick two-year-old, said her condition had improved.

“There are no signs that it will worsen again. We are keeping her closely supervised,” he said.

A spokeswoman for Australia's Department of Health and Ageing said the “situation is being closely monitored”.

- snip -

http://www.thewest.com.au/default.aspx?MenuID=29&ContentID=37286

 

[Gert van der Hoek]

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Bird flu hasn't spread from humans: govt

Tuesday Aug 14 10:59 AEST

There is no indication the deadly bird flu virus has been transferred from human to human, federal Health Minister Tony Abbott says.

A 29-year-old Indonesian woman died of the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu at the weekend on the tourist resort island of Bali.

A two-year-old girl admitted to hospital on Sunday has also been confirmed as being infected.

Contact with sick fowl is the most common way for humans to contract the H5N1 virus.

Mr Abbott said there was no reason to believe the virus had mutated into a form easily spread among humans.

"It is a disease of birds which is very hard for humans to catch," Mr Abbott told ABC Radio.

"At the moment we have no reason to think that there is human to human transmission."

Mr Abbott said if the virus did spread from human to human it could lead to a global pandemic with the potential to kill millions.

"If there ever is a genetic shift that enables this disease to pass easily from human to human then we'll be in a pandemic situation and that will be a public health disaster of a kind that almost no one alive has faced," he said.

"We haven't got to that stage and hopefully, we never will."

Australian authorities are closely monitoring the situation in Indonesia and travel advice warns of the human deaths from the bird flu.

The death of the 29-year-old woman takes Indonesia's overall death toll from the virus to 82.

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=286097

credits Christian

 

[Gert van der Hoek]

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Snip from Media Indonesia Online, ( can´t do more right now):

kasus bird flu in bali determined cluster

Jakarta--miol : the Minister of Health Siti Fadilah Soepari expressed, flu bird case in bali that snatch two men life, determined cluster case (flu bird case cluster).

http://www.media-indonesia.com/berita.asp?id=140411

 

[HenryN]

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Bird flu hasn't spread from humans: govt


Mr Abbott said if the virus did spread from human to human it could lead to a global pandemic with the potential to kill millions.

"If there ever is a genetic shift that enables this disease to pass easily from human to human then we'll be in a pandemic situation and that will be a public health disaster of a kind that almost no one alive has faced," he said.

"We haven't got to that stage and hopefully, we never will."

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=286097

credits Christian

Hopes and dreams.

 

[Sally Furniss]

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August 15, 2007 01:37pm

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22249132-2,00.html

A TWO-year-old girl on the Indonesian resort island of Bali has been cleared of carrying the deadly bird flu virus, which killed at least one of her neighbours, an official said today.

"We received the test results last night showing that the girl, two years old, is negative for the bird flu virus," said Ningrum, a doctor from the national bird flu information centre in Jakarta.

Indonesia confirmed its first human bird flu death on Bali on Monday, taking the nation's overall toll to more than 80 and raising fears of an impact on tourism, the economic lifeline of the island.

The 29-year-old woman died at the weekend. Her five-year-old daughter died on August 3 suffering flu-like symptoms and her body was cremated before samples were taken for testing, but officials said it could be "assumed" she died due to the virus.

Chickens had been dying in their village, on the northwest of the island far from the main tourist centres. The virus is typically transmitted to people via infected birds.

H5N1 is endemic across nearly all of Indonesia, which has recorded the highest number of bird flu deaths in the world since reporting its first case in July 2005.

Avian influenza was found in poultry on Bali more than a year ago, leading to the culling of hundreds of birds.

Officials in Jakarta have said they will step up measures on the island in a bid to limit any fallout to its tourism industry.

The H5N1 virus is regarded as a global threat because scientists fear it could mutate into a form that is easily spread among humans, leading to a pandemic with the potential to kill millions.