# 739
The Antara News Agency is reporting some additional details on the death, announced this morning, confirmed to have been from bird flu in Indonesia.
The following is a machine translation excerpt. A hat tip to gardner at the Wiki for finding this article.
A, that was everyday worked as the trader, began to show the sign was sick on April 25 2007 and afterwards was treated in the Beginning Hospital of Bross Pekanbaru on April 27 2007.
On May 1 2007, A continued the maintenance to the Hospital of Gleneagles Medan, the North Sumatran province and two days afterwards that is on May 3 2007, struck 23.30 WIB A died in this hospital.
Up to now the Department of the Health does not yet know the risk factor of the spread of the bird flu virus to A. A Joint Team will from the Department of the Health visit the area of the A residence to carry out epidemiological investigation.
The team consisted of the personnel from Sub Directorate Surveilans and Sub Directorate Zoonosis, both of them from Directorate General Pengendalian of the Illness and environmental Sanitation as well as the personnel from the Body of the Department of the Health of Health Research And Development.
The team of the Health of the Riau province of the Service at this time also began preliminary investigation but still could not conclude the risk factor of the spread of bird flu in the place of the A settlement.
Over the past month, news has been particularly slow coming out of Indonesia. Suspected cases are almost never confirmed or denied by the government. In this case, we found out about all of this 4 days after the patient dies, and 10 days after the patient was admitted to the hospital.
In this case, there appears to be some doubt as to whether this victim had contact with poultry. An investigation is ongoing.
