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  • Indonesia, Bekasi - Woman dies of H5N1 avian flu - Ministry

    This is the third H5N1 case reported in Indonesia in 2013. The third fatality, the third case in Bekasi, a suburb of capital Jakarta.

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    Update to Bird Flu Case -195

    NOVEMBER 15, 2013 | 3:39 PM

    Flu-Bird-Update; Ministry of Health, "the Directorate General of Disease Control and Environmental Health" announced a new case of bird flu has been confirmed by the Center for Biomedical and Healthcare Technology Association, Balitbangkes.

    Case on behalf of DL (female, 31 years) residents of East Bekasi, West Java Province, a housewife. Start date of 1 November 2013 symptoms of fever and nausea. On 3 November 2013 the case of a private outpatient clinic and was advised to check into the laboratory within 3 days if there is no change. Because there is no improvement, dated 5 November 2013 case then went to the private hospital outpatient clinic and laboratory permeriksaan done with diagnosed Typhoid Fever. Then on 6 November 2013 the case went to a different private hospital emergency department with complaints of fever, nausea, vomiting and was treated at the hospital. On 8 November 2013 a state of deteriorating cases with complaints of cough-cough and shortness. On 11 November 2013 around 02.00 pm in the morning, when the case died will be referred to the bird flu referral hospital.

    Epidemiological investigations have been conducted into the homes of people and the environment by the Ministry of Health Integrated Team, West Java Provincial Health Office, Department of Health and Department of Animal Husbandry Bekasi acquired risk factors, namely the possibility of contact with the environment in the case of ornamental birds. In case the home environment there are about 50-60 birds scattered about in four locations. Approximately ± 500 meters from the house there is a case that occasional cases of general market spending in the market.

    With the increase of these cases, since 2005 until this news was published, the cumulative number of bird flu cases in Indonesia is 195 cases with 163 deaths.

    Director General of Disease Control and Environmental Health Prof.dr.Tjandra Yoga Aditama as the focal point of the International Health Regulations (IHR) has been informed about the case to the WHO.
    This information is released by Center for Public Communication, Secretariat General of the Ministry of Health. For further information, please contact Hello MOH hotline code> lokal> 500-567; SMS 081 281 562 620, fax: (021) 52921669, www.depkes.go.id website and e-mail addresses kontak@depkes.go.id.

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    Indonesia: H5N1 suspected in death of Bekasi, W. Java toddler - Confirmed

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    Re: Indonesia, Bekasi - Woman dies of H5N1 avian flu - Ministry

    Indonesia reports bird flu death

    Updated: 2013-11-18

    (Xinhua)

    JAKARTA - A 31-year Indonesian woman has died from avian influenza in outskirts of Jakarta, the health ministry said Monday.

    The fatality brings the total death toll to 163 out of 165 cases since the virus first attacked the country in 2005, the ministry said in a statement.
    The woman from East Bekasi died on Nov 11 before she was shifted to a bird flu-designed hospital.

    The housewife first had the symptom on November1 by having fever and nausea that led her to be admitted to several health clinics and hospitals. She was diagnosed with typhoid at one point and the symptoms had progressively worsened before she died.

    An epidemiological investigation showed that the woman had possibly got contact with birds or poultry.

    Indonesia reported the last bird flu case in September on a 28- year man from West Java.

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    Indonesian woman dies of bird flu

    AFP

    Posted on 2013-11-18

    JAKARTA: An Indonesian woman living near the capital Jakarta has died of bird flu, the health ministry said, the latest death from H5N1 in the country hardest hit by the virus.

    The 31-year-old housewife from Bekasi in West Java province is the 163rd fatality from the virus in Southeast Asia’s biggest nation, the ministry said in a statement seen Monday.

    She came down with a fever last week and the bird flu virus was diagnosed but she died before medics could get her to a hospital for specialised treatment, it said.





    Monday, 11.18.13

    Bird flu claims 163rd fatality in Indonesia

    AP

    JAKARTA, Indonesia -- A 31-year-old Indonesian woman has died from bird flu, bringing the death toll to 163 in the country hardest-hit by the deadly virus.

    A statement Monday on the Health Ministry's website says the housewife from Bekasi Timur, a West Java district just east of the capital, Jakarta, died last week at a private hospital, five days after being treated for the H5N1 bird flu virus.

    An investigation by the ministry found that the woman, who first developed symptoms of fever and nausea on Nov. 1, had possible contact with birds or poultry around her house.

    Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/11/1...#storylink=cpy
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      Re: Indonesia, Bekasi - Woman dies of H5N1 avian flu - Ministry

      BIRD FLU CASE REPORT TO 195
      Same report as above!

      Kementerian Kesehatan Republik Indonesia


      DEPKES hyperlinks are very tempormental !

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        Re: Indonesia, Bekasi - Woman dies of H5N1 avian flu - Ministry

        Three people dead from bird flu this year

        The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | National | Wed, November 20 2013

        A 31-year-old housewife in Bekasi, West Java, died of bird flu last week, bringing this year?s death toll caused by the H5N1 virus to three, the Health Ministry has announced.

        According to the ministry, the woman have suffered from a fever since early November and died on Nov. 11, before she had received specialized treatment for bird flu. After examining the victim?s home and environment, Health Ministry officials said she likely contracted the H5N1 virus due to the 50 or 60 chickens in her neighborhood, including her own, home-kept chicken.

        The country had witnessed 195 cases of H5N1, causing 163 fatalities, since 2005, the ministry said. ?If we think of the 55 fatalities suffered in 2005, this year?s total fatality rate is very low,? the ministry?s director general for disease control and environmental health, Tjandra Yoga Aditama, said recently.

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