Re: Indonesia BF - 5/17/06
Health Minister Siti Fadilah Supari said till at this time the government was still investigating the source of the spread of the bird flu virus (Avian influenza/AI) that happened in the Karo Regency, North Sumatra. "We will continue to carry out investigation to know from where his source." From manure, the pig or the other matter, he said in Jakarta, on Wednesday, ended appointed the Head of the supervisory Body Medicine and Food (BPOM) that just. Husniah Rubiana Thamrin Akib, that beforehand held the office of Bina Obat Rasional Director, was appointed as the BPOM Head replaced H Sampurno that held the office of the BPOM Head since 2001. According to Menkes, the case of bird flu that happened in this Karo Regency was not really expected considering in several last months did not have the case of bird flu to humankind in the regency. He also said that the Karo Regency also not was the area endemi bird flu to the poultry. It was further that Siti explained also that the big possibility of the virus kind that infected several citizens of the Karo Regency since some time before that still was the same as the kind of the infection in cases of the cause virus beforehand namely the A virus of type influenza the sub-type H5N1. "I did not want estimated but if according to results" sequencing the "Body and the WHO laboratory of Health Research And Development in Hong Kong, H5N1 meant his virus kind was still same," he said. Beforehand from the eight patients suspek this five patients among them ABS (died on May 10), RKK (died on May 9), BKK (died on May 12) and B (died on May 14) and JG (lived) was stated positive was infected by the AI virus by the Body of Health Research And Development (Balitbangkes) the Department of the Health. The five patients according to Pengendalian Breakingprep Penyakit Director General and Sanitation of the I Nyoman Kandun Health of the Department's Environment also were stated positive was infected by the virus H5N1 by the WHO Reconciliation Laboratory in the Hong Kongese University. With the increase of five positive cases just in the Karo Regency and one positive case in Surabaya (East Java) then the number of cases of bird flu in the homeland that was confirmed the WHO reconciliation laboratory in Hong Kong the total totalling
Health Minister Siti Fadilah Supari said till at this time the government was still investigating the source of the spread of the bird flu virus (Avian influenza/AI) that happened in the Karo Regency, North Sumatra. "We will continue to carry out investigation to know from where his source." From manure, the pig or the other matter, he said in Jakarta, on Wednesday, ended appointed the Head of the supervisory Body Medicine and Food (BPOM) that just. Husniah Rubiana Thamrin Akib, that beforehand held the office of Bina Obat Rasional Director, was appointed as the BPOM Head replaced H Sampurno that held the office of the BPOM Head since 2001. According to Menkes, the case of bird flu that happened in this Karo Regency was not really expected considering in several last months did not have the case of bird flu to humankind in the regency. He also said that the Karo Regency also not was the area endemi bird flu to the poultry. It was further that Siti explained also that the big possibility of the virus kind that infected several citizens of the Karo Regency since some time before that still was the same as the kind of the infection in cases of the cause virus beforehand namely the A virus of type influenza the sub-type H5N1. "I did not want estimated but if according to results" sequencing the "Body and the WHO laboratory of Health Research And Development in Hong Kong, H5N1 meant his virus kind was still same," he said. Beforehand from the eight patients suspek this five patients among them ABS (died on May 10), RKK (died on May 9), BKK (died on May 12) and B (died on May 14) and JG (lived) was stated positive was infected by the AI virus by the Body of Health Research And Development (Balitbangkes) the Department of the Health. The five patients according to Pengendalian Breakingprep Penyakit Director General and Sanitation of the I Nyoman Kandun Health of the Department's Environment also were stated positive was infected by the virus H5N1 by the WHO Reconciliation Laboratory in the Hong Kongese University. With the increase of five positive cases just in the Karo Regency and one positive case in Surabaya (East Java) then the number of cases of bird flu in the homeland that was confirmed the WHO reconciliation laboratory in Hong Kong the total totalling
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