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Re: INDONESIA - Jan 6+ General Bird Flu News
Interesting story from a doctor at Persehabatan Hospital, Jakarta
Tamiflu not Effective for Bird Flu
Jakarta (Lampost): the Chairman of Doctor's Team the Control of Bird Flu of Persehabatan Hospital, Jakarta East, Mukhtar Charity, explained spread the bird flu virus came back in recent times menyeruakkan the fact that the deadly illness medical treatment could not be carried out by relying on Tamiflu medicine.
"Tamiflu only was effective twice 24 hours," said Mukhtar.
Meaning that, this medicine capability only was effective if the sufferer mengonsumsi Tamiflu in two first days since feeling the sign to be similar of flu burung
.
According to Mukhtar, the sign of bird flu really was the same as common flu.Moreover, on the first day and the two sufferers appeared normal as usual.That made many sufferers late be brought took medicine.
When being asked whether in this way the person who suffered common flu could take Tamiflu to anticipate bird flu, Mukhtar said could then.
"In the other country like Japan, Tamiflu was indeed sold free."
There, the person who was sick normal flu took Tamiflu, he said.
Mukhtar added the positive patient bird flu was still having hope recovered 25%."That with the criterion had good body resistance and during early entered was not inflamed" of the "lungs (pneunomia)."
As far as this is concerned, in Indonesia 79 cases of the positive patient happened was infected by bird flu and 61 cases including ending with the death.
In the meantime, the emergence of the foster-mother's variation (host) the bird flu virus (avian influenza-AI) to the animal apart from the chicken, like the cat, the dog, the duck, and the pigeon, was worried memengaruhi the level of the ferocity or the virulence of this deadly virus.
The virus geneticist from the Airlangga University (Unair), Chaerul A. Nidom, that was contacted on Wednesday (17-1) said the same situation could be influential against the spread model of the virus from the poultry to humankind.
He expected the variation of the virus foster-mother H5N1 this emerged resulting from the handling of the AI infection that was incomplete to the poultry and the existence of the inaccuracy of the vaccination program.
The "use" of the "poultry vaccine non-H5N1 like H5N2 or H5N9 could cause the virus to have the adapting capacity in host just."
I just wanted to warn this case almost was the same as the incident in Fujian, China, he said.
In 2006, the descendants (sublineage) the virus H5N1 just that was acknowledged as Fujian-like emerged in China.
The descendants of the virus H5N1 this was suspected of emerging because of the mutation of the virus H5N1 resulting from the inexact vaccination program.
"Therefore, I appealed to the government immediately to pull the vaccine non-H5N1 from the market," he said.
In connection with that, the Secretary Komnas FPBI, Tri Satya the daughter Naipospos, beforehand also suggested the technical department related made the policy of the better vaccination, so as all the poultries could be in the sector of this livestock breeding vaccinated.
More aggressive control efforts must be carried out as immediately as possible to the virus berpatogenitas high that infected 79 Indonesian inhabitants and caused 61 including dying that did not claim casualties again.
http://www.lampungpost.com/cetak/berita.php?id=2007011800554045
Interesting story from a doctor at Persehabatan Hospital, Jakarta
Tamiflu not Effective for Bird Flu
Jakarta (Lampost): the Chairman of Doctor's Team the Control of Bird Flu of Persehabatan Hospital, Jakarta East, Mukhtar Charity, explained spread the bird flu virus came back in recent times menyeruakkan the fact that the deadly illness medical treatment could not be carried out by relying on Tamiflu medicine.
"Tamiflu only was effective twice 24 hours," said Mukhtar.
Meaning that, this medicine capability only was effective if the sufferer mengonsumsi Tamiflu in two first days since feeling the sign to be similar of flu burung
.
According to Mukhtar, the sign of bird flu really was the same as common flu.Moreover, on the first day and the two sufferers appeared normal as usual.That made many sufferers late be brought took medicine.
When being asked whether in this way the person who suffered common flu could take Tamiflu to anticipate bird flu, Mukhtar said could then.
"In the other country like Japan, Tamiflu was indeed sold free."
There, the person who was sick normal flu took Tamiflu, he said.
Mukhtar added the positive patient bird flu was still having hope recovered 25%."That with the criterion had good body resistance and during early entered was not inflamed" of the "lungs (pneunomia)."
As far as this is concerned, in Indonesia 79 cases of the positive patient happened was infected by bird flu and 61 cases including ending with the death.
In the meantime, the emergence of the foster-mother's variation (host) the bird flu virus (avian influenza-AI) to the animal apart from the chicken, like the cat, the dog, the duck, and the pigeon, was worried memengaruhi the level of the ferocity or the virulence of this deadly virus.
The virus geneticist from the Airlangga University (Unair), Chaerul A. Nidom, that was contacted on Wednesday (17-1) said the same situation could be influential against the spread model of the virus from the poultry to humankind.
He expected the variation of the virus foster-mother H5N1 this emerged resulting from the handling of the AI infection that was incomplete to the poultry and the existence of the inaccuracy of the vaccination program.
The "use" of the "poultry vaccine non-H5N1 like H5N2 or H5N9 could cause the virus to have the adapting capacity in host just."
I just wanted to warn this case almost was the same as the incident in Fujian, China, he said.
In 2006, the descendants (sublineage) the virus H5N1 just that was acknowledged as Fujian-like emerged in China.
The descendants of the virus H5N1 this was suspected of emerging because of the mutation of the virus H5N1 resulting from the inexact vaccination program.
"Therefore, I appealed to the government immediately to pull the vaccine non-H5N1 from the market," he said.
In connection with that, the Secretary Komnas FPBI, Tri Satya the daughter Naipospos, beforehand also suggested the technical department related made the policy of the better vaccination, so as all the poultries could be in the sector of this livestock breeding vaccinated.
More aggressive control efforts must be carried out as immediately as possible to the virus berpatogenitas high that infected 79 Indonesian inhabitants and caused 61 including dying that did not claim casualties again.
http://www.lampungpost.com/cetak/berita.php?id=2007011800554045
