sharon sanders
Editor-in-Chief & President
Re: Indonesia - Mother of 2 children who died last week of bird flu, died too
According to him, these patients were treated in health centers before they could close their homes because of the heat for three days. "Based on his family, both patients previously had a history of contact with poultry that died suddenly around her house in early October," he said
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"We were immediately led the team to perform pelusuran around the patient's residence, on Saturday (8 / 10)," said Head of the Provincial Livestock I Putu Sumantra Bali in Denpasar, on Sunday.
He explained, the search results is known that the incident never happened poultry residents died suddenly about three weeks ago, but was not reported to authorities.
Therefore, the added Sumantra, against the surviving chickens in the area of Banjar Galiran, Jehem Village, District Tembuku that he said he did a quick test to find out whether or not infected with bird flu.
"The results of tests on birds found there was not positive of bird flu," said Sumantra
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The mother died 2 days after the children. Her onset date is uncertain. But apparently the authorities cleared the area of chickens immediately. It is highly possible this is a human to human transmission but the mother did not have a sufficient viral load of H5N1 in her system to test positive initially. After that she was given tamiflu. I presume she took it. Especially after seeing how sick her children were.
Her clinical symptoms are that of an H5N1 infection as noted in the post above.
She was grieving. Losing 2 children is an extremely horrific event. Who knows what effect this had on her physically, probably worsening her prognosis.
I think what we want to know is if oseltamivir is becoming resistant to H5N1.
The children were administered oseltamivir too late. And probably the mother too.
However, it took only 1 year for the seasonal H1N1 oseltamivir resistant strain to become the dominant strain in the world. There are some documented cases of oseltamivir resistance in A/H1N1 too.
I am frankly surprised that oseltamivir has worked for so long against H5N1. Is it still working?
We will shortly know by the exponential numbers of human cases, or not, that will become apparent in some of the areas that we are following today.
According to him, these patients were treated in health centers before they could close their homes because of the heat for three days. "Based on his family, both patients previously had a history of contact with poultry that died suddenly around her house in early October," he said
http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/showpost.php?p=424405&postcount=2
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"We were immediately led the team to perform pelusuran around the patient's residence, on Saturday (8 / 10)," said Head of the Provincial Livestock I Putu Sumantra Bali in Denpasar, on Sunday.
He explained, the search results is known that the incident never happened poultry residents died suddenly about three weeks ago, but was not reported to authorities.
Therefore, the added Sumantra, against the surviving chickens in the area of Banjar Galiran, Jehem Village, District Tembuku that he said he did a quick test to find out whether or not infected with bird flu.
"The results of tests on birds found there was not positive of bird flu," said Sumantra
http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/showpost.php?p=424537&postcount=9
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The mother died 2 days after the children. Her onset date is uncertain. But apparently the authorities cleared the area of chickens immediately. It is highly possible this is a human to human transmission but the mother did not have a sufficient viral load of H5N1 in her system to test positive initially. After that she was given tamiflu. I presume she took it. Especially after seeing how sick her children were.
Her clinical symptoms are that of an H5N1 infection as noted in the post above.
She was grieving. Losing 2 children is an extremely horrific event. Who knows what effect this had on her physically, probably worsening her prognosis.
I think what we want to know is if oseltamivir is becoming resistant to H5N1.
The children were administered oseltamivir too late. And probably the mother too.
However, it took only 1 year for the seasonal H1N1 oseltamivir resistant strain to become the dominant strain in the world. There are some documented cases of oseltamivir resistance in A/H1N1 too.
I am frankly surprised that oseltamivir has worked for so long against H5N1. Is it still working?
We will shortly know by the exponential numbers of human cases, or not, that will become apparent in some of the areas that we are following today.