- Hello Jeff - 7 new cases suspected in Riau? Wow. 89th
death. All eyes are on Indonesia. I wonder if the latest 7 (all children)
had exposure to sick birds or, as I suspect, wereexposed in human cluster
cases?
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- Patty
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- Indonesia - 89th Bird Flu Death Reported
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- 10-26-7
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- (Reuters) -- An Indonesian toddler from Tangerang,
west of the capital Jakarta, has died of bird flu, bringing the country's
death toll from the disease to 89, a Health Ministry official said on Tuesday
[23 Oct 2007]. The 4-year-old girl died on Monday [22 Oct 2007] after being
admitted to hospital 2 days earlier, health Ministry spokeswoman Lili Sulistyowati
said by telephone.
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- The girl, who had been suffering from fever, died after
being transferred to Persahabatan hospital in Jakarta. Officials were still
investigating the case, but 4 chickens had previously died in the girl's
neighborhood, another official at the Ministry's bird flu centre said.
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- Contact with sick fowl is the most common way for humans
to contract the deadly H5N1 strain of the virus. Bird flu is endemic in
bird populations in most parts of Indonesia, where millions of backyard
chickens live in close proximity to humans.
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- Indonesia, which has now had 110 confirmed cases of the
disease in humans [if the information in this report is included], has
suffered more fatalities than any other country. Including the latest case
(described above), there have been 204 deaths and 332 cases globally since
2003, according to World Health Organisation data.
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- (see the WHO table of confirmed cases of human H5N1
avian influenza, last updated on 17 Oct 2007, at
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- Indonesia - 7 New Suspected Cases In Riau Province
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- Xinhua News Agency - China View
- 10-26-7
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- Seven children aged between one and 10 years old are
suspected of having bird flu in Indonesia's Riau province [on the island
of Sumatra], where 4 people have died of the virus in recent months, an
official said Tuesday [23 Oct 2007]. "It is only suspicion, but we
are [keen] to handle the case[s]," local head office head Hasanul
Irbai was quoted by leading news website Detikcom as saying.
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- The 7 children live in Merampi Hulu village, Siak regency,
in the province on Sumatra island. "The Siak government will immediately
send the children to the Arifin Achmad Hospital in Pekaanbaru (the provincial
capital)," he said.
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- Earlier this week, the government confirmed that bird
flu was the cause of the death of a 10-year-old girl in Riau, bringing
the total number of national casualties to 89, the highest among other
bird-flu affected countries in the world.
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- http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-10/23/content_6930446.htm
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- ProMED-mail post "Avian influenza, human (141):
Indonesia
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- 20071022.3443" carries a statement from an official
at the Health Ministry's bird flu information centre contradicting an earlier
Xinhua-relayed report that a 10-year-old child in Riau province had died
as a result of avian influenza virus infection. Therefore, pending further
clarification, the Xinhua report should be discounted, and the 4-year-old
child resident in Tangerang (in Java) described in part [1] of this post
should be considered the 89th fatality in Indonesia and the 110th case.
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- The cause of death of the 10-year-old girl in Riau province
and the 7 new suspected cases remains to be established and confirmed by
laboratory testing.
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- Patricia A. Doyle DVM, PhD Bus Admin, Tropical Agricultural Economics
Univ of West Indies Pl http://drpdoyle.tripod.com/ Zhan le Devlesa tai sastimasa
- Go with God and in Good Health
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