Re: INDONESIA - Jan 20+ - General bird flu news
Re: INDONESIA - Jan 20+ - General bird flu news
This article shows IMHO some authorities in Indonesia are really concerned.
Bird flu: Be Careful the Big Plague!
By: Sampurno
Director of Center for Strategic Management Studies in Jakarta
In penghujung in 2006 the National Committee the Control of Bird Flu stated 17 provinces no longer are the area endemi bird flu.
Moreover the Committee also said succeeded in reducing the case of the infection from 5,6 (March-July 2006) to 3,8 (August-December 2006).
In the same period, he said, the case of the death could be per the month reduced from 4,7 to 2,6 (Antara, 29/12/06).
Every few the day from the statement Komnas the Bird Flu,
we were really startled with the news 4 people died in Jakarta and Tangerang resulting from bird flu in time extension less than 2 weeks.
Moreover various medias also reported enough patients who were treated in the hospital in Jakarta, Bandung, and other cities that suspect bird flu.
With this case, Komnas Bird Flu determined the status of the extraordinary incident (KLB) for all of Indonesia. "
This the big problem for us."
The government did not suspect will get the attack suddenly in the beginning of the year.
Because, during last December, there was not even one cases of bird flu that was reported. We were not ready with the prevention program.
Was like this the Bayu Krishnamurti statement the senior figure Komnas Bird Flu as being quoted by the Online Perspective (17/1/).
According to the perspective of the management strategic, two statements Komnas Bird Flu apart from the paradox also indicated the nonexistence grand strategy and the program with the accurate implementation.
In time only approximately 2 weeks had the opposite statement mutually.
In the context of the strategy and the program, certainly really was different in facing the fact in the first statement and the fact in the second statement.
In fact the eradication of bird flu could not be carried out had a basis the analysis that his characteristics ad hoc, must be comprehensive, very conscientious, be careful and awareness that was high.
Jakarta was the epicentre?
Expertly molecular biology of the Airlangga University, CA Nidom, estimated Jakarta and Tangerang were the epicentre (the centre) the plague of bird flu.
This hypothesis was received was based on results of the simulation of various models that were made through the calculation bioinformatika.
According to the expert in this bird flu, if was done the inspection to all the Jakarta inhabitants, among them had the possibility of bringing this deadly virus, despite always was sick or died.
According to him bird flu in Jakarta and Tangerang has been very worrying and was suspected of by this virus could have spread all over the country.
Despite the Nidom assumption not necessarily 100 percent true, but this must be responded to in a very serious manner.
If the bird flu virus already mutated could spread from humankind to humankind and his epicentre in Jakarta, this meant the plague at the same time the national disaster.
Jakarta, Bekasi, Tangerang, and Bogor apart from his inhabitants were very solid also had the high mobility. Moreover millions of humankind outside-entered Jakarta.
If true Jakarta became the epicentre of the plague of bird flu then in very short time this illness will spread all through Indonesia in fact overseas.
The flu virus experienced the change basically through two methods that is: drift antigenik and shift antigenik.
The change by means of drift antigenik if the virus changed little by little continually in a period of that was long.
This process will produce the virus strain just that could not be recognised long virus antibodies.
Because of the existence of the virus strain just that continually this the person could be attacked by flu several times. The change method shift antigenik was different.
The A flu virus did not change little by little but suddenly and produced the A flu virus that was new that could infect humankind.
This virus also had hemmaglutinin and neuroemidase that was not identified by humankind. If the virus strain just this infected humankind and humankind did not have immunity against strain just this, then the virus could spread from humankind to humankind.
People power
Faced the plague threat of bird flu, we might not make dependent fully to the government. The community must rise with the awareness to be full to be able to help himself. Each family must be responsible towards the cleanliness of the environment as well as released his domestic environment from the poultry that became the source of the spread of bird flu.
The eradication strategy of bird flu must be based on to the individual and the family as core, afterwards spread beginning with RT, RW, the district, the subdistrict, et cetera.
The severing of the spread link of the bird flu virus was indeed absolute must be done with the priority in the epicentre of bird flu that is in Jabotabek and other areas that has infected by bird flu.
Hong Kong several last year destroyed 1.5 million poultries and currently were not yet found again by the case of bird flu in Hong Kong.
Now Indonesia half-hearted in interrupting the spreading link of the bird flu virus. As a result at this time cluster biggest bird flu in the world was Indonesia.
Likewise the number of infection sufferers and the patient who died because of bird flu, Indonesia was in the highest place.
Apart from the control strategy that was preventive this also must be used by the approach '3-E' in the handling of the case of bird flu, that is: early detection, early reporting, and early action.
The existence suspicion of the case of bird flu must be able to be detected secera fast afterwards was reported during afterwards was followed up by the fast action also.
This must be underlined because the bird flu virus attacked humankind with the very fast process. Until this did not yet have the vaccine to oppose the bird flu virus to humankind, and Tamiflu medicine only had golden the period 24 hours since the sufferer began to be infected. More than 24 medicine hours have lost his usefulness.
Because of that the step was most strategic and effective at this time was preventive efforts that involved people power comprehensively and together.
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