# 2931
While we don’t get a lot of `official’ news out of Indonesia, local media reports continue to paint a picture of ongoing outbreaks of avian flu among domesticated poultry, and sporadic human cases.
Depkes, the Indonesian Health Ministry, no longer confirms human H5N1 infections in `real time’. Instead, they provide summaries at irregular intervals, usually every few months.
Today, local media reports include stories about a 2 year-old in isolation in Pekanbaru, the capital of Riau province – and two people in intensive care in Garut, Indonesia.
Pity, Bocah 2 Year suspect Bird Flu
Variety of detection equipment and medical tools inserted in the body IS (2), which is the five suspect bird flu and is currently undergoing treatment in a bird flu isolation room RSUD Arifin Achmad Pekanbaru, Tuesday (24 / 3).
He allegedly infected with Avian Influenza virus (H5N1) or bird flu, and at this time under the supervision of a special team of doctors pending the results of the sample has been sent to the Laboratory of the Ministry of Health RI.
A Hat tip to Sally on FluTrackers for the above link, and to Shiloh on Flutrackers for the story that follows.
On Tuesday, 24/03/2009 19:41 of WIB
2 Garut residents Suspeck Flu of Burung
Mansyur Hidayat - detikNews
Garut - two people were treated intensively in RSU isolation space Dr Slamet, Garut, West Java, on Tuesday (24/3/2009). Both of them were expected strong suspect bird flu.
Two people were NY. Aning (25) and NY. Eka (35) the resident of the Pabrik RT Village 01, RW 12, the Cintanagara Village, Kecamatan Cigedug, Kabupaten Garut West Java.They were treated in the room of the Isolation penangan bird flu, RSU Dr. Slamet Garut, because of the high fever.
The patient's family said, dozens of poultries around their residence beforehand were found died suddenly.
The RSU head Dr Slamet, Dr Widjadjanti Oetojo, said the condition for the two residents berangsung improved. Nevertheless, both of them were still needing the intensive maintenance. "Now the condition both of them have indeed improved." However we were still being waiting for results of the blood test of the two patients from the laboratory, said Widjajanti, on Tuesday (24/3/2009). (djo/djo)
As always, these are just `suspect cases’, and are likely to remain suspect until the Health Ministry decides to release test results on them.
There are a great many diseases, many of which are common in Indonesia, that could produce similar symptoms. So the fact that they are being treated as bird flu cases doesn’t necessarily mean they really have the virus.
Hopefully, in time we will get more details on these, an other cases.
