Bird Flu patients test negative in Karo, Indonesia

[Theresa42]

Human bird flu cluster fears in Sumatra

August 02, 2006

Human bird flu cluster fears in Sumatra
By Times Online and agencies

Seven Indonesians, including three children all from the same village in Sumatra are being treated for bird flu symptoms in what doctors fear could be two new clusters of the virus.

While blood tests are still to confirm H5N1strain infections, the patients are believed to have been infected by chickens in the Karo district which have died and tested positive for the virus.

The three children, two siblings aged 10, and six and their 18-month-old neighbour were admitted to the Adam Malik hospital in Medan on Tuesday after showing signs of the disease.

Medical officials have said that their condition is stable, and they are suffering from the usual fever, flu and cough associated with bird flu.

"Their lungs have not shown signs of pneumonia but we have to keep monitoring them because in one or two days things could change," Luhur Suroso, the hospital director said.

Seven members of the one extended family who lived in the same North Sumatran district as those involved in the new outbreak, died from bird flu in May.

This was the largest recorded cluster of the virus so far known.

At the time, the World Health Organisation said that two members of the cluster - an Indonesian man who cared for his ailing son, might have caught the virus in a case of direct human-to-human transmission, but that the virus did not spread very far if this did happen.

There have been 42 deaths from the H5N1 strain of bird flu in Indonesia since July 2005. The country has been criticised for not doing enough to prevent H5N1, with the government so far hesitating to launch into a mass cull of poultry.

Bayu Krisnamurthi, an official at the anti-bird flu task force said of this latest case: "If it is feasible as far as the procedure is concerned, we will start culling poultry in the area today."

With the recent outbreak, the World Health Organisation concluded that while limited human-to-human transmission probably had occurred - the scenario it is feared will lead to a human pandemic - the virus did not spread beyond blood family members.

Nyoman Kandun, an Indonesian Health Ministry official told Associated Press news agency: "In fact there are two clusters, one with two sisters, the other with three family members, and another two of their neighbours."

Bird flu clusters, or groupings of infections, are watched closely because they can help determine if the illness is changing or becoming more easily transferable between people.

Siti Fadilah Supari, the Health minister, Anton Apriyantono, the Agriculture minister and Aburizal Bakrie, the Welfare minister travelled to Karo today to assess the situation. Siti Fadila Supari said after meeting with hospital officials, that "their condition for the time being is good."

To date, 134 people have died from bird flu worldwide. The disease, which first began spreading in Asia in late 2003, is contracted mostly through contact with infected poultry.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,25689-2295897,00.html

[HenryN]

Re: Six people was expected Terjangkit Bird Flu in Karo

Bird flu spread, Three Minister visited the Land Karo
the Report: Nian Poloan

Medan-RoL -- three cabinet ministers SBY visited the Karo Land Regency in North Sumatra (North Sumatra), followed the discovery suspect bird flu against three villagers Sumbul.

These findings at the same time mementahkan the assumption beforehand, that mentioned the area of the mountains has been clean from the virus H5N1.
Beforehand, totalling 6 from 7 bird flu casualties in the Karo Land died after being ascertained terkenavirus deadly this.
The three ministers - the Co-ordinating Minister Kesra Aburizal Bakrie, Menkes Siti Fadila Supari and the Minister For Agriculture Anton Apriantono at once came to the Sumbul Village in the Kabanjahe Subdistrict around 65 km from Medan after beforehand visited three patients suspect bird flu in RSUP Adam the Owner in Medan, on Wednesday (2/8).

This visit was meant to see directly the truth of the re-emergence the bird flu virus and the precaution that will be carried out.
After peering three suspect Dedek Sitepu bird flu (6), Moses Valentino Sitepu (1,5) and Elvi Febrianti Sitepu (10) in RSUP Adam the Owner, Aburizal Bakrie said the government wanted to ascertain the truth of the re-outbreak bird flu in the Karo Land.
From here 'just will be determined by steps in the further action', he said to the reporter.

For the assurance, sample third blood suspect this bird flu has diperiksakan to the laboratory in Hong Kong.
Despite this Aburizal justified the extermination action of the poultry that was done of the Karo Land Regional Government and carried out the isolation against the Sumbul Village at this time, as the exact action.
So the 'poultry traffic and pemakain fertiliser from and e the village was restricted', he said.

Manure that it was suspected as the disseminator of this virus, for the time being was forbidden to be used.

Whereas all the poultry in a radius of certain also must be destroyed.
The government will 'replace the poultry that was destroyed by Rp 10.'
000/ekor, he explained.

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[Jeremy]

Re: Six people was expected Terjangkit Bird Flu in Karo

So we are now looking at a total of 9 people suspected of being infected in this latest cluster in Karo, Indonesia.

[Commonground]

Re: Six people was expected Terjangkit Bird Flu in Karo

I lost you Jeremy - I still got 7. Who are the last 2?

[Dark Horse]

2 Sumatra siblings, 7 neighbors may have bird flu

http://asia.news.yahoo.com/060802/kyodo/d8j845jg0.html

Wednesday August 2, 2:13 PM

2 Sumatra siblings, 7 neighbors may have bird flu

(Kyodo) _ Two siblings and their seven neighbors in a regency in Indonesia's North Sumatra Province are suspected of being infected with bird flu and are receiving treatment at hospitals, health officials said Wednesday.
An official at the Jakarta-based Bird Flu Coordinating Post told Kyodo News the siblings, aged 6 and 10, and their 18-month-old neighbor from the village of Sumbul in Karo Regency have been treated at the Adam Malik General Hospital in the provincial capital Medan since Tuesday.

"Six other neighbors aged between 10 and 32 are being treated at the Kabanjahe General Hospital in Karo," the official said, adding a team from the Health Ministry has been dispatched to the village.

"Preliminary indications show they are suspected of being infected with the H5N1 virus and their samples are being examined," she added.

The daily Kompas quoted Sumbul Sembiring, chief of the bird flu management team in the regency, as saying that before the new suspected cases were found 19 chickens had been found dead, probably because of bird flu.

In Karo, seven people from one family contracted the H5N1 strain of bird flu earlier this year. The seven family members -- six of them died -- were confirmed having contracted the virus in April and May. Another family member also died, but she was only suspected of being infected with the disease.

In June, the World Health Organization confirmed that human-to-human transmission of bird flu had occurred in the regency.

According to the WHO, the number of human bird flu cases in Indonesia is 54, including 42 deaths. The Health Ministry insists that human cases total 56, including 43 deaths.

The disease has killed at least 134 people around the world since December 2003, according to the WHO.

[Jeremy]

Re: Six people was expected Terjangkit Bird Flu in Karo

Thank you Dark Horse!

[hawkeye]

Indonesia: Seven people from the same village have been hospitalised...

Seven people from the same village have been hospitalised in Indonesia with suspected bird flu, officials say.

The group is from Karo district in Northern Sumatra province, where seven members of one family died of the deadly H5N1 virus in May.

Their deaths sparked fears that the virus was mutating into a form which could pass easily from human to human, but experts later ruled this out.

Indonesia has seen more bird flu deaths this year than any other country.

A health ministry official, Runizar Ruesin, said experts were still waiting for test results from the group and any cluster "must be scientifically proved".

But any new cluster of bird flu sufferers would cause alarm, especially since foreign health experts say Indonesia has not managed to control the disease's spread among birds.

"There are two clusters, one with two sisters, the other with three family members, and another two of their neighbours," Health Ministry official Nyoman Kandun told The Associated Press news agency.

Chickens in the area where the suspected victims live had tested positive for the bird flu virus, another official said.

Indonesian ministers have travelled to the region to assess the situation.
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[Lyro]

Seven people from the same village suspected with bird flu

This article mentions 7 people also... and "There are two clusters, one with two sisters, the other with three family members, and another two of their neighbours"

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NEW BIRD FLU FEARS IN INDONESIA
Seven people from the same village have been hospitalised in Indonesia with suspected bird flu, officials say
August 2nd, 2006 (News BBC)

The group is from Karo district in Northern Sumatra province, where seven members of one family died of the deadly H5N1 virus in May.




Their deaths sparked fears that the virus was mutating into a form which could pass easily from human to human, but experts later ruled this out.
Indonesia has seen more bird flu deaths this year than any other country.

A health ministry official, Runizar Ruesin, said experts were still waiting for test results from the group and any cluster "must be scientifically proved".

But any new cluster of bird flu sufferers would cause alarm, especially since foreign health experts say Indonesia has not managed to control the disease's spread among birds.

"There are two clusters, one with two sisters, the other with three family members, and another two of their neighbours," Health Ministry official Nyoman Kandun told The Associated Press news agency.

Chickens in the area where the suspected victims live had tested positive for the bird flu virus, another official said.

Indonesian ministers have travelled to the region to assess the situation.

May case
Experts fear that the virus could mutate to a form which could be easily passed from human to human, triggering a pandemic and potentially putting millions of lives at risk.

The World Health Organization said that limited human-to-human transmission had taken place in the case in May, but emphasised that this did not signal a major change in the spread of the disease.

Indonesia recorded its 42nd human bird flu death at the end of July, the same total as in Vietnam.

But while Vietnam has been praised for controlling the disease's spread among birds, Indonesia's government has been criticised for its reluctance to cull fowl in infected areas and for the fact that many Indonesians still do not understand the danger of living in close proximity to chickens and ducks.

Globally, more than 130 people have died of bird flu since late 2003. Most of the deaths have been in East Asia, but the virus has also spread to Europe, Africa and South and Central Asia.

Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/5238576.stm

Original article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/5238576.stm

[hawkeye]

Re: Indonesia: Seven people from the same village have been hospitalised...

Bird-Flu Outbreak Suspected in Northern Sumatra
By VOA News
02 August 2006


Indonesian health officials say seven people from a village in northern Sumatra are being treated for what doctors suspect may be bird flu.

The villagers come from the same district where bird flu killed seven members of an extended family in May.

Officials say the suspected new cases include two young siblings and a neighbor's baby. They have been admitted to a hospital in the city of Medan.

Local authorities are carrying out tests on the seven villagers to determine whether they have the dangerous H5N1 strain of the virus.

The previous cluster of bird flu deaths in northern Sumatra was the largest of its kind since the global outbreak began, and raised concerns about human-to-human transmission of the virus.

Indonesia has confirmed 42 deaths from bird flu, tying Vietnam for the world's highest number of fatalities.

[HenryN]

Re: 9 suspected bf patients in Karo, Indonesia

3 children Suspect Bird Flu was treated in RSU ADam the Owner was written by editorial staff on Wednesday, on August 02 2006 Medan (SIB) three children from the Village of Sumbul Mufakat the Kabanjahe Subdistrict, the Karo Land, suspect bird flu was reconciled by RSU Kabanjahe to RSUP H Adam the Medan Owner, on Tuesday (1/8).

The three children that is, Evi Sitepu (10), Dedek Sitepu (6) and Moses (1,5).

Evi and Dedek were the older brother was siblings whereas Moses was their neighbour.

The three of them with the family arrived in RSP H Adam the Owner approximately struck 15.
40 WIB by travelling by the RSU Kabanjahe ambulance.

By using the infusion the three of them were at once treated in Longing space A. Information was received, the three children suspect bird flu began with the death of the chicken belonging to their neighbour several previous days.

The family brought him to RSU Kabanjahe, on Monday night (31/7).
After being researched, the three children terindikasi contracted the illness similar to bird flu.

The RSU Kabanjahe side afterwards reconciled the three of them to RSP H Adam the Owner.

When arriving in the hospital belonging to this government the temperature of the child's body on 38 levels celsius.
Director RSP H Adam the Owner when it was confirmed through Kahumas the Ginting rays justified the existence of three patients suspect bird flu from the Karo Land.

Said the rays, was based on information that acceptance, the three children suspect bird flu began with the discovery of their neighbouring chicken that died.

The area of the Spreading of the Indication of the bird flu Virus spread in karo Beforehand was named, the spreading of the location or the area terindikasi was attacked by the bird flu virus in the Karo Regency got wide to the Village Sumbul the Kabanjahe Subdistrict followed the discovery 6 chickens belonging to the citizen died, on Monday night (31/7) as well as were increased again by six local citizens, that same evening was brought to RSU Kabanjahe.

Three citizens, Zulham Sitepu (12), Alfian (10) and Reiny (30) was permitted to come home on Tuesday, (1/8) days.
Now three other citizens that is, Evi br Sitepu (10), Dedek Sitepu (6) and Moses (1,5), the same day, on Tuesday

That, was explained Kadis the Karo Health, Dr Diana in the hall of the regent's office, on Monday night (31/7) in being in a meeting suddenly in the regent's office with around the 20 's the village head of more than one Kabanjahe Subdistrict and Berastagi was led by the Regent Karo Drs Good Fortune Daniel Sinulingga.

According to Dr Diana, he not yet dared to decisive whether the three children were positive terjangkit Afian influenza (AI).
?Saya not want to too much advanced.

However that clear, the sign of the affected patient of the beginning the birds virus like hot the body reached 36,50C through to 370C, the cough, pilek, crowded and broncho pnuemonia was found on the body pasien,? he stated.

In the meantime, in the place was separated, Kadis Agriculture, Livestock Breeding, fisheries and the Karo Plantation, Ir Sidharta Pinem to the reporter, on Tuesday (1/8) explained that, the 6 chickens were expected terjangkit H5N1.

This temporary analysis was reinforced by results revites of the sample of chicken blood.

Observation of the reporter, before being reconciled to RS Adam the Owner, the three children were placed in the special room of the child RSU Kabanjahe for 14 hours.

Was not isolated with other children who were undergoing the maintenance and medical treatment resulting from the other illness.
Director RSU Dr the Ginting Voice when being asked for by his response reporter, said, in RS that was led by him was not yet available isolation space.

?Besok (Wednesday-red) the side of the Public Works Service (DPU) the Karo Regional Government just did survey for the development in the increase in special space the isolation along with equipment.
His fund already tersedia,? said Dr Ginting without mentioning the cost size was meant.

In the meantime, the Secretary of the Area Drs Sumbul Depari to the reporter, on Tuesday (1/8) said, his side sent the sample of chicken blood to the Perternakan Service in Medan.

?Kita did not want careless, twice 24 results hours labolatorium of Medan definitely has we ketahui,? he said.

If positive the chicken died terjangkit AI, his side wanted to not want to have to take the firm action of destroying the radius chicken 1 km from the Sumbul? Village.

Beforehand, on the awareness of the citizen totalling 200-tail of the chicken was destroyed the night itu,? he said added.

Considering the verification in results of investigation about the plague of bird flu in Karo still in the process of the side's related research, the Faction of PDI P DPR RI asked the Karo Regional Government to stop actions that his characteristics were arrogant and the anarchist in the extermination of the chicken in Karo.

Moreover was very damaging the wider community and discredited all the lines of the wheel of the economy in Karo, the Karo Regional Government must immediately make the statement to the public that, the bird flu virus was not in Karo.

That it was stressed Dr H Idham SH MKn, the member DPR RI and, the Commission 4 Legislation bodies (Baleg) the PDI P Faction from Dapem North Sumatra 3 to SIB, on Monday night (31/7) in Kabanjahe.
?Kita saw the actual example.

From rumours of the bird flu virus in Karo, to currently the citrus fruit not the behaviour.

Including all of his products of the agricultural cultivation not the behaviour in the market.

Correctly-not him, saw in the market and could be asked about to the farmer's community sendiri,? firm Dr Idham after doing the individual's recess to Karo, Dairi and Papkak Bharat.

Must be admitted, the hesitant consumer bought all the Karo agricultural products because of worrying this product was again contaminated by the bird flu virus, he added had a disappointed tone.

In the extermination of this chicken poultry, Idham also saw the Karo Regional Government was not gave the educational example the community.

For example, the insignificance of information to the community and the nonexistence of the co-ordination with the government partner personally.
Like with DPRD and the other agency openly.

?Saya asked, rumours of the bird flu virus should be not made the object of the foundation of the issuing of money for the people that unclear for the plague research of this bird flu.

His impact was very big for the wider community, not the impact to the government that was worried by us.

But the impact to the life of the community itu,? said Idham again.
Because, the validity produced by the inspection still in the process and was questioned.

Even suddenly had the decision, the Karo area was affected by the bird flu virus.

Because of this, DPR RI will immediately ask for responsibility of the Karo Regional Government in appointing the Karo area to be affected by the plague of the bird flu virus.

?Fraksi PDI P DPR RI will bring this problem in a meeting DPR RI,? firm Idham.
(MSt/AG/D5/C6/i)

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[Jeremy]

Re: 9 suspected bf patients in Karo, Indonesia

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14148626/

Indonesia tests 7 for bird flu from same village
Cases in area where cluster from same family killed by virus in May
Reuters

Updated: 8:15 a.m. ET Aug 2, 2006


<SCRIPT language=javascript> function UpdateTimeStamp(pdt) { var n = document.getElementById("udtD"); if(pdt != '' && n && window.DateTime) { var dt = new DateTime(); pdt = dt.T2D(pdt); if(dt.GetTZ(pdt)) {n.innerHTML = dt.D2S(pdt,(('false'.toLowerCase()=='false')?false :true));} } } UpdateTimeStamp('632901177222130000'); </SCRIPT>MEDAN, Indonesia - Seven Indonesians from the same village in North Sumatra have been hospitalized and are being tested for bird flu, an official said on Wednesday, raising fears of new cluster cases in the country.

The group comes from Karo district in North Sumatra province where bird flu killed as many as seven people in an extended family in May, triggering fears the H5N1 bird flu virus had mutated into a form that could spread easily between people.

?Whether it is a new cluster or not, that must be scientifically proved,? said Runizar Ruesin, head of the bird flu information center at Indonesia?s health ministry.

He said the seven were admitted to the local Kaban Jahe hospital, with three referred to the state-run Adam Malik hospital.

The latter three are children ? two siblings aged 10 and six and their 18-month-old neighbor.

?I am still waiting for the result of the tests.?

Another official said chickens in the area where they lived had died and tested positive for bird flu. Sick poultry is the usual mode of transmission of the disease, endemic in birds in about two-thirds of the country?s provinces.

[HenryN]

Re: 9 suspected bf patients in Karo, Indonesia

Consistency was for the Eradication of the Plague of Bird Flu written by editorial staff on Wednesday, on August 02 2006 we were very happy on the decision of the Government of the Province Sumtara North terkait
with eradication efforts of the plague of bird flu.

By Pemprovsu was named, especially for the Karo Regency region, was stated was closed for the movement in and out of the poultry.
This decision was regarded as part of the effort to release this area from the plague of bird flu, after some time before, the intensity of the spreading of the plague of bird flu didaerah this was very high.
If we back to behind, that since being maintained by him the Karo Regency as the area endemi for the spreading of the plague of bird flu, beforehand has many casualties that fell.

Not only many poultry that died, in fact the life of humankind then often has been claimed.

In this position, the government was always prosecuted to be able to act as wise as possible.

Some time before, we also heard, as being reported by various mass media, the government through the Minister kordinator Welfare of the People (the Co-ordinating Minister Kesra) Aburizal Bakrie issued the instruction about the control of the infection of the bird flu virus, including the extermination of the limited poultry (selective culling).
The problem is, made the control method of the model like this effective?
Perhaps the model of this kind, also could bring the loss that very big for the community, for example if not having taken part in with giving of compensation for the community that his poultry took part in being destroyed.

Indeed the plague of bird flu again was at a peak, after the discovery of the positive inhabitants contracted bird flu in the Fortification Village Sibelang the Karo Regency.

Afterwards in several areas in fact was found that his intensity was increasingly big and claimed fatalities.

Moreover in West Java, this bird flu virus claimed fatalities.
Thousands of livestock also finally must have been destroyed as a result of being detected contracting the bird flu virus.

Likewise in other areas.

Believed in, if immediately was not looked for the real and basic solution to overcome this incident, then as a result of the continuation, both took the form of the threat to the poultry and the health of humankind will continue to happen.

This kind of the bird flu virus was indeed very dangerous.
Because if humankind has been infected, then big the possibility will die.
The matter so perhaps that became consideration of the government so as to dismiss the policy of destroying all the available poultry kinds around it.
But again and again, we ought to ask, did this step then become the solution that most effective to combat the dangerous illness this?

One matter that ought to be recorded was that the government must carry out compensation or as the form of compensation for the breeders that his poultry took part in being destroyed.

Because, almost could be ascertained, for them who were directly affected by the impact of this extermination, moreover many of the they made his life dependent to raised poultries, really big.

So, they needed capital to begin new efforts.

Indeed in the eradication of the plague of this bird flu needed consistency.
Be not enough only very much.

Might not only a partial step.

The co-ordination between the department, and intergovernmental the area along with his rank really was needed in dealing with him.

So, for areas that have been positive terjangkit the bird flu virus, then the curative action and rehabilitatif appropriate was put forward.

Now for areas that were not yet detected being infected by this virus, then preventive efforts and pro-the motive must be done in a kontiniu manner.

Meaning that needing consistency in an effort to overcome him.
Consistency in overcoming the spreading of this bird flu could in headed by upholding the aspect of the hardening.

For example the supervision must be intensified especially being related to the livestock seed that entered this area also must be supervised.
Likewise with livestock food.

So the Pemprovsu decision to ban for entered and the issuing of the poultry must be from the Karo Regency supported by all the sides.
Not hanyak supportive, but also took part in giving the contribution inside.

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[Commonground]

Re: 9 suspected bf patients in Karo, Indonesia

From Post #40:

"Director RSU Dr the Ginting Voice when being asked for by his response reporter, said, in RS that was led by him was not yet available isolation space." [sounds to me like there wasn't any available isolation space?]

"Considering the verification in results of investigation about the plague of bird flu in Karo still in the process of the side's related research, the Faction of PDI P DPR RI asked the Karo Regional Government to stop actions that his characteristics were arrogant and the anarchist in the extermination of the chicken in Karo.

Moreover was very damaging the wider community and discredited all the lines of the wheel of the economy in Karo, the Karo Regional Government must immediately make the statement to the public that, the bird flu virus was not in Karo." [Yeah, right.]

[HenryN]

Re: 9 suspected bf patients in Karo, Indonesia

Liputan6.com, Medan:

the Etty Boru Sitepu Condition and his brother, Dedek Boru Sitepu as well as their relatives, Moses Perangin-Wind increasingly good.

The three assumption patients of the bird flu were still feeling breathless.

However, the temperature of their body has been normal.

Etty and Dedek as well as Moses till this Wednesday (2/8), were treated in the Pilgrim's Public Hospital Adam the Owner in the Medan City, North Sumatra.

Two other patients that it was suspected contracted the similar illness that is Reny Boru Ginting and Alvian Sitepu were treated in RSU Kabanjahe, the Karo Land Regency.

The example of blood, the saliva, and urine of all the patient has been brought to Jakarta.

Results of the inspection of the Body of Health Research And Development will determine whether the five true patients were infected by bird flu or not [read: Lima the Citizen of the Land Karo was expected by Bird Flu].

When they positive was infected by the virus avian influenza (AI) the sub-type H5NI, then this was the case cluster second bird flu in North Sumatra after the case in the Karo Land.

The illness killed seven people [read: the Case Karo the Possibility from Humankind to Humankind].

As for the location clearance of the case of first and second bird flu only around 40 kilometre.(AIS/Tim Coverage 6 SCTV)


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[HenryN]

Re: 9 suspected bf patients in Karo, Indonesia

The fund of the Poultry of Extermination Compensation was infected by Bird Flu rose So Rp12.500 was written by editorial staff on Wednesday, on August 02 2006 Jakarta (SIB) the Government raised the mulberry of the poultry that was infected by the bird flu virus of the fund of extermination compensation.

(Avian influenza/AI) that beforehand Rp10 thousand to Rp12.500.

?Sejak today was decided, we took the policy of raising the compensation fund to Rp12.500,? Secretary General's words the National Commission the Control of Bird Flu and Preparedness faced the Bayu Krishnamurti influenza Pandemic when being contacted from Jakarta, on Wednesday.

According to him, the policy was taken because many of the community's members that complained and did not want received the mulberry the value of the poultry that was maintained beforehand of the fund of extermination compensation.

The condition like this, according to him, could hinder the process of the control of the deadly infection that was spread by the poultry so as the government afterwards decided to raise the mulberry of the compensation fund.

It was larger that the fund of the poultry of extermination compensation that new that, according to Bayu, was results of the compromise between the government and the community.

?Itu was results of the compromise after we carried out the meeting and held a dialogue with the regional government and masyarakat,? he said.

It was further that he explained that at this time the government, in this case Coordinating Minister for People's Welfare Aburizal Bakrie as the Chairman Komnas and Agriculture Minister Anton Apriantono, was visiting and carrying out the dialogue with the community and the government of the Karo Regency, North Sumatra, to give the understanding about the danger of the infection of the bird flu virus of minimising the community's resistance towards various policies in the control of bird flu in the area.

He said the action was carried out because at this time three citizens of the place regency of the case klaster the biggest bird flu was stated as suspek the bird flu infection.

According to the official of the Control Command Post of the Department's Bird Flu of the Health Doctor Nadhirin at this time his side was carrying out investigation epidemologi towards this case.

Results of the national laboratory inspection of the specimen of the three patients will according to him go out in one to the next two days.

He explained also that at this time the total case number of bird flu in Indonesia totalling 56 cases and 43 among them

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