Indonesian boy dies of bird flu [local tests]

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Indonesian boy dies of bird flu - June 16, 2006

A 14-year-old Indonesian boy who died this week has tested positive for bird flu, a Health Ministry official said today, citing local tests.
If confirmed by a World Health Organisation laboratory, the boy from south Jakarta will be the 39th bird flu death in Indonesia, where the virus has killed millions of fowl.

Samples of the boy's lung fluid have been sent to a WHO laboratory in Hong Kong for confirmation, Nyoman Kandun, a director general at the ministry, told a news conference. Local tests are not considered definitive.

Mr Kandun said the boy had had contact with sick poultry, the usual mode of transmission of the disease.

"The boy was admitted to the hospital on June 14 after suffering from flu-like symptoms and he died on the same day," he said.

Indonesia has seen a steady rise in its number of human infections and deaths since its first known outbreak of H5N1 in poultry in late 2003.

Bird flu remains essentially an animal disease but climbing human deaths have put many countries around the world on alert for fear it may mutate into one that could pass easily among people and trigger a pandemic, killing millions.

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More on the 14 year-old, IB, from S. Jakarta confirmed locally today

More on the 14 year-old, IB, from S. Jakarta confirmed locally today

toggletext-ed from Indonesian:

A Southern Jakarta CITIZEN POSITIVE BURUNG FLU
June 16, 2006

Jakarta (Antara News) - A Southern Jakarta citizen had the initials IB (14) was stated positive was infected by the bird flu virus (Avian influenza/AI) by the Laboratory of the Body of Health Research And Development (Balitbangkes) the Department of the Health.

The "new case, a male child was 14 years in Southern Jakarta old was stated positive according to results of the local laboratory inspection," said Jendral Pengendalian Breakingprep Penyakit Director and Sanitation of the I Nyoman Kandun Health of the Department's Environment in Jakarta, on Friday.

He said, the patient that beforehand suffered hot high (38 levels celcius), breathless and coughs as well as had the story of contact with the poultry was brought to the hospital on June 14 2006 and died on the same day.

According to him, at this time the specimen was from this patient being sent to the laboratory of the Health of the World of Organisation collaboration (the World Health Organization/WHO) in the Hong Kongese University to get confirmation.

Beforehand the citizen Pamulang, Southern Jakarta, had the initials Y (7), that died on June 1, also was stated positive was infected by the bird flu virus (Avian influenza/AI) both by the local laboratory and the WHO collaboration laboratory in the Hong Kongese University.

According to Kandun, apart from undertaking the standard procedure of the handling of the patient of government bird flu also did the inspection of people who carried out contact with the patient and carried out the testing serologis to the sample of the poultry specimen around casualties's residence to anticipate the risk of the spread of the deadly illness.

Until at this time results of the local laboratory research named as many as 52 patients in Indonesia positive was infected by the AI virus (H5N1) and 39 including dying whereas results of confirmation of the patient's specimen of the Hong Kongese University mentioned that the number of positive patients was infected by as many as 50 people and 38 including dying.

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