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Re: INDONESIA - Human cases - Sept 3 +
Re: INDONESIA - Human cases - Sept 3 +
Indonesian man with bird flu recovering, Health Ministry says
The Associated Press
Thursday, September 6, 2007
JAKARTA, Indonesia: An Indonesian man hospitalized with bird flu after cooking infected chicken was recovering Thursday, the Health Ministry said.
The 33-year-old plantation worker from central Sumatra has been hospitalized for almost ten days with high fever, coughing and breathing difficulties, a statement said. Testing confirmed he had the H5N1 strain of the virus, which has killed four of five of those sickened with it in Indonesia.
Indonesia has reported 106 people infected with H5N1, and 84 of them have died — more than 40 percent of recorded fatalities worldwide — since it began ravaging Asian poultry stocks in 2003, according to World Health Organization.
Last month, the Indonesian resort island of Bali reported its first two fatal cases.
The virus remains hard for people to catch, but experts fear it will mutate into a form that spreads easily among humans, potentially sparking a pandemic.
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Re: INDONESIA - Human cases - Sept 3 +
Indonesian man with bird flu recovering, Health Ministry says
The Associated Press
Thursday, September 6, 2007
JAKARTA, Indonesia: An Indonesian man hospitalized with bird flu after cooking infected chicken was recovering Thursday, the Health Ministry said.
The 33-year-old plantation worker from central Sumatra has been hospitalized for almost ten days with high fever, coughing and breathing difficulties, a statement said. Testing confirmed he had the H5N1 strain of the virus, which has killed four of five of those sickened with it in Indonesia.
Indonesia has reported 106 people infected with H5N1, and 84 of them have died — more than 40 percent of recorded fatalities worldwide — since it began ravaging Asian poultry stocks in 2003, according to World Health Organization.
Last month, the Indonesian resort island of Bali reported its first two fatal cases.
The virus remains hard for people to catch, but experts fear it will mutate into a form that spreads easily among humans, potentially sparking a pandemic.
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