Tangerang: Teacher dies of confirmed H5N1

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I don't remember seeing this one before. If it is a duplicate, please move it to the correct thread.

http://www.depkes.go.id/index.php/component/content/article/43-newsslider/1159-laporan-kasus-flu-burung-sampai-juli-2010.html

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BIRD FLU CASE STATEMENTS TO JULY 2010

In July 2010 there is one additional positive cases of bird flu (H5N1) in the name of YE (P, 34 years) who district of Tangerang, Banten. Positively infected by H5N1 cases were reported according to the examination Litbangkes dated July 12, 2010.

YE (P, 34 years) a teacher of high school (SMA) is a private in Tangerang district on July 2, 2010 went to the doctor private practice with symptoms of fever, cough and sore throat. It is not yet healed, two days later, the patient re-treatment and returned to private doctors refer directly to the hospital in the town of Tangerang swatsa.



During the treatment, patients experienced high fever, headache, sore throat, cough, breathlessness and diarrhea. During the three days hospitalized, YE conditions continue to deteriorate. Even on July 7, 2010 crowded heavier. X-ray results show the existence of severe pneumonia. YE then treated in the ICU (intensive care unit) and the specimen taken throat and nose. The patient died on the same day at around 13:34 pm.

Risk factors could not be ascertained. But the information was obtained, ten days before the illness (June 2010), the patient traveled to Bandar Lampung.

Director General of Disease Control and Environmental Health Prof. dr. Tjandra Yoga Aditama as the focal point of the IHR (International Health Reagulation) has also informed about the cases to the WHO.

This information is published by the Center for Public Communication, Secretariat General of the Ministry of Health officials.

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Re: Tangerang: Teacher dies of confirmed H5N1

This would be a new confirmed case. The last officially reported confirmed case was in June, reported by WHO on July 22, 2010.

The title indicates that it is a summary of July cases.

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Re: Tangerang: Teacher dies of confirmed H5N1

Avian influenza ? situation in Indonesia - update 3

3 August 2010 -- The Ministry of Health of Indonesia has announced a new case of human infection of H5N1 avian influenza. A 34-year-old female from Tangerang District, Banten Province developed symptoms on 2 July, was hospitalized on 4 July and died on 7 July. Laboratory tests were positive for H5N1 virus infection. Investigations into the source of her infection are ongoing.

Of the 168 cases confirmed to date in Indonesia, 139 have been fatal.

http://www.who.int/csr/don/2010_08_03/en/index.html

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Re: Tangerang: Teacher dies of confirmed H5N1

Source: http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90...0/7096485.html

Indonesia reports H5N1 death
20:07, August 06, 2010

A 34 year-old Indonesian woman died of bird flu in Tanggerang city in an outskirt of Jakarta, bringing the total fatality to 139 in the country, the Health Ministry said here Friday.

The archipelago country had been hit the hardest by the H5N1 virus, and the attacks of the virus have been weakened recently.

The woman died on July 7 after she was treated intensively at a hospital in the city, the spokesperson of the ministry Tri Tarayati said.

"Two of laboratory tests showed that she was positively infected by H5N1," she said at the health ministry.

The woman, who was a teacher of a senior high school in the city, first felt the symptoms of cough, fever, and the problem on her throat on July 2, she went to a doctor, the spokesperson said.

Two days later she returned to the doctor as she had not been cured yet, she was then shifted to a hospital in the city, Tarayati said

During the treatment the woman had got a high fever and respiratory problem, her condition deteriorated as she contracted pneumonia before she died, said the spokesperson.

It was not clear yet whether the woman had historical contact with poultry, as it was the common cause of the death of bird flu in Indonesia, she said.

The ministry has reported the case to the World Health Organization, said Tarayati.

Source: Xinhua