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INDONESIA - Jan 6+ General Bird Flu News

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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

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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
 
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Snip:

In the meantime, the management side of the Daerah
Public Hospital (RSUD) Raden Mattaher Jambi, since last year
provided two rooms of the isolation to mengantisipasi
if having the patient was stated suspect bird flu.


RSUD Raden Mattaher also formed the team khusus
as the handling power of the bird flu patient,
yakni
involved all the available specialist doctor in daerah
this as well as several people of the other nurse.

Only according to Yusuf Generous, Bidang Pelayanan RSUD Raden Mattaher Deputy Director, his side only mampu accommodated two time inpatients simultaneously, because of the limitations of the place and the implement.

"Because of the limitations" of "means and the infrastructure."
When the patient more than two people, we then did not know harusberbuat what, he said.


http://www.tempointeraktif.com/hg/nasional/2007/01/19/brk,20070119-91584,id.html
 
Re: INDONESIA - Jan 6+ General Bird Flu News

RI begins campaign to clear capital of fowl as bird flu cases spike

RI= Republic of Indonesia

JAKARTA (AP): Residents handed over hundreds of chickens and other fowl for slaughter Friday as authorities in Indonesia's capital scrambled to stop the spread of bird flu after a spike in human deaths.

Just meters away, however, it was easy to find people with no intention of giving up their birds, showing the difficulties ahead for Indonesia - the country worst hit by bird flu - as it prepares to enforce a ban on fowl in residential areas.

"My chickens are healthy and strong," said Jumadi Akhir, who keeps two fighting cocks and several other ornamental chickens.

"I treat them as good as I do my own children. I wash them morning night and day."

The sprawling country has come under fire for failing to make adequate efforts to fight H5N1 and has largely failed to follow through on earlier promises to stamp out the virus through massculls, so it remains to be seen whether the latest campaign will be a success.

The latest campaign will require the commitment of the government's underpaid and corrupt officials, in addition to support from bird owners.

Health Minister Siti Fadilah Supari told residents Friday that lives are at stake.

"People infected by bird flu only have a small chance of survival," she said. "With no medicine to fight the virus and the pattern of the disease still unclear, we have to cut the chain of transmission, which means killing fowl."

The birds handed over Friday in a ceremony attended by top government officials had not been tested for bird flu and were believed to be healthy.

They were slaughtered and then placed in a hole in the ground before being set alight.

Jakarta Governor Sutiyoso said this week he was giving residents two weeks to kill or sell their backyard chickens, song birds and other fowl before officials go door-to-door confiscating them.

Those who comply will receive compensation of about US$1 a bird.

"Starting on Feb. 1, I will show no tolerance," said Sutiyoso, who goes by only one name.


Indonesia has seen 61 human bird flu deaths since 2004 - four of them this week in the capital Jakarta.

International experts fear the H5N1 may mutate into a form that could spread easily between humans and potentially kill millions around the world, including in wealthy nations that have so far been spared human cases.

There are estimated to be around 350 million backyard chickens throughout Indonesia, many of which are kept in the capital and surrounding towns. The health minister said this week that nineother provinces hard-hit by bird flu would also soon ban chickens from residential areas.

Humans catch bird flu from infected fowl so removing birds from residential areas is a key plank in efforts to stop the spread of the virus.

Edi Supriyadi, a 47-year-old civil servant, was among those taking part in Friday's campaign, handing over 10 ducks, four chickens and six birds.

"When I heard that most of the bird flu victims in Jakarta were infected by backyard chickens, I decided to hand over all of my fowl before it was too late." (***)
http://www.thejakartapost.com/detailtoplatest.asp?fileid=20070119154125&irec=0
 
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Sumatra, Aceh:

One Village in Aceh Besar was suspected of being infected by Burung

on January 19 2007 | 15:51 WIB

The Interactive TIME, Banda Aceh: the Lamcot Village, the Darul Imarah Subdistrict, Aceh Besar was proven was infected by bird flu.

The section head Acehinese Livestock Breeding, M. Nasir Praised revealed that when visiting the location after receiving the report from the resident, this afternoon.

"From results apid test, the chicken and the proven duck were infected by bird flu," said Nasir to the reporter.

To strengthen proof, he continued, the Service sent the sample of chicken blood to the laboratory in Medan, North Sumatra.

Anticipation that was carried out in this village was spraying of the pen and gave the vaccination to the chicken and the duck.
Whereas that died was destroyed.

The village head Lamcot, Al Hatta mentioned since last week was recorded by approximately 200 chickens and the duck that died suddenly in his village.

According to him, the resident in his village not all that understood about the bird flu illness.As a result, many residents not all that cared about the deadly virus danger.

http://www.tempointeraktif.com/hg/nusa/sumatera/2007/01/19/brk,20070119-91618,id.html
 
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http://english.eastday.com/eastday/englishedition/node20665/node20669/node22813/node95960/node95962/userobject1ai2577780.html

Jakarta backyard farming banned <HR width="100%">18/1/2007 17:32




Following the rapid increase of bird flu fatalities, the Indonesian capital city Jakarta administration Wednesday decided to ban backyard farming among its residents without providing compensation to poultry owners.

The administration gives the owners of chickens, ducks, swans, pigeons and quails, two weeks to consume these fowls properly, sell them, or to simply destroy them from residential areas.

Only those owners with fowls infected with H5N1 virus would receive compensation as much as 12,500 rupiah (1.5 U.S. dollars) per chicken or bird.

According to the decision, starting February, the Husbandry and Fishery Agency would conduct door-to-door inspection and destroy these fowls forcefully without any compensation to residents.

"I hope all Jakartans could support this policy until the government declares that our region is free from bird flu. This is all for our own good," the Jakarta Post daily quoted Governor Sutiyoso as saying Wednesday after leading a bird flu meeting, which also attended by officials from Health Ministry and the National Commission for Bird Flu.

Jakartans may still keep birds and fowls for hobby and research purposes but owners have to attain health certificate from local offices of the Husbandry and Fishery Agency, free of charge.

The agency would also destroy these pet birds if owners refuse to proceed the certificates.

The agency estimated that about half of 2,684 neighboring units in the city are populated with fowls. Each neighboring unit averagely resides about 1,000 fowls.

For the city's poultry industry, the administration would gradually relocate farms and slaughterhouses to designated areas, which are far from residential areas.

The city is currently has about 1,200 legal and illegal slaughterhouses, 27 broiler-chicken breeders, 284 domestic-chicken breeders and 229 duck breeders.

The city also receives 600,000 chickens from its neighboring areas every day.

The head of the National Commission for Avian Influenza and Pandemic Preparedness, Bayu Krisnamurthi praised the administration's policy and hoped that other regions witch already infected with bird flu could also implement the same effort.

"In other regions like West Java and Banten, banning backyard farms and relocating poultry industry should be easier because they still has a lot of non-residential areas," he said.

Indonesia is facing the second attack of bird flu early this month as temperatures drop during traditional flu season.

Four people have died of bird flu in Jakarta during the past week, pushing up the country's death toll from the virus to 61.

Most of the victims were believed to have had contact with infected birds.
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19/01/2007 17:32 WIB

Jusuf Kalla: Bird Flu Not the Nasional Disaster


Jakarta - Although 9 provinces were stated alert bird flu, Vice President Jusuf Kalla stated the government will not appoint him as the National disaster.

"Because of that the illness, not the national disaster but the epidemic," said Kalla ended the working meeting of the manpower field and ketransmigrasian in the Depnakertrans Office, Street Gatot Subroto, Jakarta, on Friday (19/1/2007).

According to Kalla, the spread of bird flu did not happen in Indonesia, in fact all over the world.

However the Vice President said the government will try as well as possible to carry out prevention efforts of the spread of the virus avian this influenza.
"So the action that was carried out by us that is more maximal efforts, despite only 9 provinces that were asked to be tightened by Menkes," stated Kalla.

Last Thursday January 18, the Minister For Home Affairs appointed 9 areas that is North Sumatra, West Sumatra, Lampung, Banten, the Special Capital District of Jakarta, West Java, Central Java, East Java and South Sulawesi, in 3 months to have to tighten the livestock traffic and the livestock product.

Specially Banten, the Special Capital District, and West Java, in 3 months must destroy the poultry that was in the settlement.(aba/nrl)


detiknews.com
 
Summary

Summary

Metrotvnews.com, Jakarta

20 Januari 2007 12:03 WIB


sorry - no link

till Saturday (20/1) today, at least 23 [I count 25 listed below - R McC] patients were treated, both still was suspected and stated positive was infected by the bird flu virus.

In Jakarta, at least 10 bird flu patients were treated.
As many as seven people were treated in the Friendship Hospital, Jakarta East and one including being stated positive bird flu.

While the Sulianti Saroso Infection Hospital currently treats three patients, all still berstatus flattest bird flu.

In West Java, 10 flattest patients bird flu was treated, eight people were treated in the Handsome Hospital of Sadikin Bandung, and two people in the lung Hospital of Rotinsulu Bandung.

Whereas in Yogyakarta and Semarang, each one treated a person was treated in the hospital of Doctor Sarjito and Doctor's Hospital Karyadi Semarang.

In Balikpapan, Palembang and Lampung each one was also treated by one flattest patient bird flu.
 
Flattest patients

Flattest patients

There has been some confusion on another thread as to what 'flattest' means in Toggletextese.

I interpret it as 'suspected'. That always makes sense in the context.

Roichard
 
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Richard McC said:
Metrotvnews.com, Jakarta

20 Januari 2007 12:03 WIB

sorry - no link

till Saturday (20/1) today, at least 23 [I count 25 listed below - R McC] patients were treated, both still was suspected and stated positive was infected by the bird flu virus.

In Jakarta, at least 10 bird flu patients were treated.
As many as seven people were treated in the Friendship Hospital, Jakarta East and one including being stated positive bird flu.

While the Sulianti Saroso Infection Hospital currently treats three patients, all still berstatus flattest bird flu.

In West Java, 10 flattest patients bird flu was treated, eight people were treated in the Handsome Hospital of Sadikin Bandung, and two people in the lung Hospital of Rotinsulu Bandung.

Whereas in Yogyakarta and Semarang, each one treated a person was treated in the hospital of Doctor Sarjito and Doctor's Hospital Karyadi Semarang.

In Balikpapan, Palembang and Lampung each one was also treated by one flattest patient bird flu.
Link:

http://www.metrotvnews.com/berita.asp?id=31964

Thanks, Richard!
 
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