Indonesia - Bali - Tabanan Resident Allegedly Infected with Bird Flu Virus

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Tabanan Resident Allegedly Infected with Bird Flu Virus


Denpasar - A resident Gadungan Sari Village, East Selemadeg District, Tabanan, Bali is set as a suspect or suspects bird flu patient. Resident who this unnamed female and aged 45 years.

Head of Disease Control and Environmental Health, Public Health Service Bali, dr. Ketut Subrata, Friday (1 / 4) says that the female patient was declared as suspect bird flu after experiencing health problems with the physical features of bird flu.

Also around the patient's home within the last month are common pet chickens that died suddenly.

"History is the existing chickens in the house of chicken deaths, from a month ago, suffering from cough, cold, heat, and also a bit crowded that there is a history like that at home then they will need us and we watched the nurse at the hospital nearest hospital Tabanan" said dr. Ketut Subrata when found Selebzone.com in Denpasar.

Ketut Subrata convey the general condition of the patient is still good, but still must wait for the results of laboratory tests to ensure bird flu positive or negative.

While the Bali Health Office based on data transmission of bird flu in Bali has led to two people died in the year 2007.



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Re: Indonesia - Bali - Tabanan Resident Allegedly Infected with Bird Flu Virus

Suspected Case of Bird Flu Found in Bali

April 04, 2011

Denpasar, Bali. A hospital in Bali treated a person suspected of having contracted bird flu on Sunday, a local health official said.

The patient, identified as N.L., is a 45-year-old woman from Gadungan Sari village in Tabanan district?s East Selemadeg subdistrict. A preliminary test of the patient was positive for bird flu but more testing is necessary to confirm the diagnosis.

?She was brought to the hospital with flu-like symptoms and a very high fever,? said Ketut Subrata, the head of disease control and environmental health of the province?s health department.

Chickens that died of bird flu have been found near N.L.?s house. It was not clear whether she had been in direct contact with the sick poultry.


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