Indonesian boy dies of bird flu, taking country's human death toll to 53

[Gert van der Hoek]

Did not know where to post this report from Jakarta, feel free to move mods

A boy (11) died in Jakarta, name is "A"

Seems to be new victim (hate to say "case")

JAKARTA (AFP) - An Indonesian boy has died of suspected bird flu at the main treatment hospital for the disease here, a spokesman said.

Tests are still being carried out to confirm the disease in the 11-year-old from a southern Jakarta suburb, he said.

"He died last night, but there are yet no results on tests on samples taken from him," said Ilham Patu of the Sulianti Saroso hospital.

The boy, known only by his initial 'A', was admitted on Saturday but had previously been treated for 10 days at another hospital in south Jakarta.

Positive results from two Indonesian laboratories mean that the World Health Organization includes the case in its records.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/2006101...lthfluindonesia

[Gert van der Hoek]

Re: INDONESIA-Jakarta

An 11-year-old Indonesian boy has died


Indonesian boy dies of bird flu, taking country's human death toll to 53
The Associated Press

Published: October 15, 2006


JAKARTA, Indonesia An 11-year-old Indonesian boy has died of the virulent H5N1 strain of bird flu, raising the national death toll from the disease to 53, the director of the hospital where the patient was being treated said Sunday.

The boy, who wasn't named by officials, was admitted to the Sulianti Saroso Hospital for Infectious Diseases on Thursday and died Saturday night, said Director Dr. Santoso Suroso.

He was believed to have become infected by dead chickens near his home in south Jakarta, Suroso said.

Almost all of the fatal human cases have been linked to contact with chickens or their droppings.

But the World Health Organization said the virus passed among humans in one large cluster of infections in a single family on Sumatra Island earlier this year.

Indonesia has been criticized for failing to aggressively attack the virus in poultry, either by mass slaughters or vaccination. It has said it lacks the resources to compensate farmers for slaughtered birds.

As of Oct. 11, the H5N1 strain of bird flu had killed at least 148 people worldwide out of 253 cases since it started ravaging poultry stocks in Asia three years ago, according to WHO.

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2006...ia_Bird_Flu.php

[christian]

Indonesian boy dies of bird flu, taking country's human death toll to 53

This should be a dup, considering it's all over the msm, but I couldn't find it.

Indonesian boy dies of bird flu, taking country's human death toll to 53
Int. Herald Tribune / AP - Published: October 15, 2006

JAKARTA, Indonesia - An 11-year-old Indonesian boy has died of the virulent H5N1 strain of bird flu, raising the national death toll from the disease to 53, the director of the hospital where the patient was being treated said Sunday.

The boy, who wasn't named by officials, was admitted to the Sulianti Saroso Hospital for Infectious Diseases on Thursday and died Saturday night, said Director Dr. Santoso Suroso.

He was believed to have become infected by dead chickens near his home in south Jakarta, Suroso said.

Almost all of the fatal human cases have been linked to contact with chickens or their droppings.
But the World Health Organization said the virus passed among humans in one large cluster of infections in a single family on Sumatra Island earlier this year.

Indonesia has been criticized for failing to aggressively attack the virus in poultry, either by mass slaughters or vaccination. It has said it lacks the resources to compensate farmers for slaughtered birds.

As of Oct. 11, the H5N1 strain of bird flu had killed at least 148 people worldwide out of 253 cases since it started ravaging poultry stocks in Asia three years ago, according to WHO.

The boys initials were given as "A" and "he was admitted on Saturday but had previously been treated for 10 days at another hospital in south Jakarta".
See also: Yahoo!/AFP, Fox News, Today Online, CNN, ChannelnewsAsia, Antara, Jakarta Post (hardly & probably recycled).

[HenryN]

Re: Indonesian boy dies of bird flu, taking country's human death toll to 53

Also mentioned in segment on CNN.

[HenryN]

Re: Indonesian boy dies of bird flu, taking country's human death toll to 53

http://www.mediaindo.co.id/berita.asp?id=114199

<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=5 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD class=kop>Minggu, 15 Oktober 2006 14:41 WIB
HUMANIORA - Kesehatan
Bocah Suspect Flu Burung Meninggal
</TD></TR><TR></TR></TBODY></TABLE>

<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD>JAKARTA--MIOL: Seorang anak laki-laki yang diduga mengidap flu burung, meninggal Sabtu malam. Demikian dikatakan Kepala Tim Informasi dan Surveillance Kejadian Luar Biasa Flu Burung juru bicara Rumah Sakit Sulianti Soeroso, Minggu (15/10).
Namun demikian, belum didapat kepastian apakah anak laki-laki berusia 11 tahun itu meninggal karena flu burung. Pasalnya, labortarium masih melakukan tes daerah korban yang tinggal di Jakarta Selatan ini.
"Ia meninggal malam kemarin namun belum ada hasil tes dari sampel yang diambil dari korban," ujar Ilham.
Anak lak-laki yang disebut memiliki inisial A tersebut disebutkan sebelumnya telah mendapat perawatan selama 10 hari di sebuahrumah sakit di Jakarta Selatan. (Ant/OL-06)
</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>

[HenryN]

Re: Indonesian boy dies of bird flu, taking country's human death toll to 53

Commentary at

http://www.recombinomics.com/News/10160601/H5N1_S_Jakarta.html

[Gert van der Hoek]

Re: Indonesian boy dies of bird flu, taking country's human death toll to 53

Last days a lot of news form different locations, on top of that Toggletext down... dust is coming down and I think the boy "" A" of 11 is a girl
Aulia Rahmani who died in Jakarta; in a very nice translation (not toggletexted) by Imersion CE:

Suspected Bird flu, A citizen of Ulujami Passed Away

JAKARTA, KOMPAS - Aulia Rahmani, an inhabitant of Kelurahan Ulujami Kecamatan Pesanggarahan Jakarta Selatan left this earth on Saturday evening (14/10) in the infection center )RSPI) Sulianti Saroso Jakarta North, suspected as a result of having suffered from bird flu. Her corpse student class School secondary extension school Lanjutan (SMP) (Sekolah Menengah Lanjutan Pertama ) in South Jakarta, on Sunday morning (15/10) will be taken in the interment spot Ulujami that lies not far from her dwelling.

In the beginning Aulia suffered from fevers and cough. After Saturday (7/10) her parents carried the girl wheeled to the hospital Jl Veteran Bintaro (non-Com Veteran Hospital). She was admitted and diagnosed there at the outset as suffering from typhus and scarlet fever.five days after she was admitted , Aulia's health condition never improved.

Thursday morning (12/10) Aulia changed care to Rumah Sakit Internasional Bintaro. Aulia obeyed her head kinsman, and RSI Bintaro assessed her a second time away from her four siblings Rahmani - Ny Musofa as probably suffering from bird flu.

RS then declared keberadaan Aulia her subsequnet condition in RSPI Sulianti Saroso admitted outright so that the girl is admitted in there.

Thursday evening, Aulia was carried to the RSPI in order to get more intensive treatment. However this past Saturday, he condition worsened last evening and today she left this earth.

In her Aulia's parents' house, can be found a bird shed. Previously, over there life more than 10 birds doves and other kinds of fowl, nevertheless since Aulia's admission to RSPI, her direct family slaughtered every bird and afterwards burned them all. (TRI)

http://www.kompas.com/ver1/Metropolitan/0610/15/161244.htm

Note: samples were taken from the girls relatives

[Mellie]

Re: Indonesian boy dies of bird flu, taking country's human death toll to 53

http://www.recombinomics.com/News/10160601/H5N1_S_Jakarta.html

Suspect H5N1 Fatality from Southern Jakarta
Recombinomics Commentary
October 16, 2006

The boy, who wasn't named by officials, was admitted to the Sulianti Saroso Hospital for Infectious Diseases on Thursday and died Saturday night, said Director Dr. Santoso Suroso.

He was believed to have become infected by dead chickens near his home in south Jakarta, Suroso said.

Almost all of the fatal human cases have been linked to contact with chickens or their droppings.

The above comments describe a suspect H5N1 bird flu fatality from southern Jakarta. Although the above report, as well as WHO updates, suggests the human infection is from chickens in the area, the sequences from chickens on Java have failed to match the human H5N1 sequences on Java.

The match failure was discussed at length at a WHO in Jakarta in June, 2006. Sequences of human cases on Java had a novel cleavage site and mapped to the bottom branch of a phylogenetic tree of H5N1 isolates in Indonesia had no bird isolates that were on that branch. Since that vast majority of bird flu tests on suspect bird flu patients are limited to those with some sort of linkage to dead or dying birds, the presence of dead or dying birds in H5N1 patients does not provide evidence that the human infection was due to the bird infections. These sequences from the bird isolates clearly indicate that the human infections are not from the H5N1 positive birds.

Since most of the bird sequences tested by June, 2006 were from isolates collected prior to the end of 2005, 91 samples collected from October, 2005 to March 2006 were sent to a WHO affiliated lab in Australia. After the June meeting, sequences of human isolates were released. All of the human isolates on Java had the novel cleavage site and fell onto the lower branch of the HA tree. Sequences in the other 7 gene segments from these isolates also matched each other, and failed to match the bird sequences.

The tests on the 91 samples yielded over 50 sequences but the only match from a bird on Java was from a duck in Indramayu. However, this isolate match H5N1 from three patients from 2005. It did not match the vast majority of human isolates from Java.

The only non-human isolate that did match the human isolates was from a cat on Indramyu, which was also closely related to human H5N1 isolates from Indramayu.

There have been no additional sequences from Australia, indicating that attempts to find matching sequences on Java have failed. Recent media reports suggest additional cat H5N1 infections have been detected. A broader screening of mammals and wild birds would be useful.

It is clear that most of the human H5N1 infections on Java are not from H5N1 in poultry and limiting human H5N1 testing to those with links to dead or dying poultry is generating an underestimate of H5N1 human infections.

[Theresa42]

Re: Indonesian boy dies of bird flu, taking country's human death toll to 53

Hat-tip, Dutchy!

toggletext-ed from Indonesian:

The citizen Ulujami the Flu Negative Burung

on Wednesday, November 01 2006 | 14:33 WIB

The Interactive TIME, Jakarta: The blood Test and throat mucus three citizens Ulujami Pesanggrahan, Southern Jakarta was not infected by bird flu.

The inspection was done by the Body of the Health of the Department's Research And Development followed the death of Aulia Rahmani, the child 13 years that lived in this location.

"From the Litbangkes report, results of the negative, there were no sign anything against them," said Dewi R Anggraeni, the spokesperson the Ethnic Group of the Southern Jakarta Community of the Health Service in his office, today.

According to him, the taking of the sample was carried out against the close family Aulia that often direct contact with casualties.

They were the father, the mother and his servant, that is Romani, 42 years, Masofa, 32 the year and Kokom, 37 years.

Aulia Rahmani died to last October 13 in RSPI Sulianti Saroso.

From results of investigation, casualties often carried out contact with the poultry around the house and his kept birds.

http://www.tempointeraktif.com/hg/jakarta/2006/11/01/brk,20061101-86883,id.html