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As if my last blog on Vietnam’s H5N1 woes wasn’t enough this morning, we’ve more news coming out of Indonesia on their recent outbreak of bird flu in Central Java (previous reports here and here).
Map by Ida at BFIC.
On January 20th, a 22 year-old man from Cirebon died in a Karanganyar hospital, after contracting what is suspected to have been H5N1 in his home town. He is the second suspected H5N1 case from Cirebon in the past week, and we’ve reports of poultry deaths spreading through four villages there.
Ida at The Bird Flu Information Corner has several items this morning from the local media, including:
Karanganyar, Central Java ::: Officials collect bird samples from deceased bird flu suspect’s neighborhood
January 28, 2010Karanganyar – Livestock and Fishery Service of Kabupaten Karanganyar conducted investigation to chicken samples such as cloacal and throat swab of birds in Desa Wonorejo, Jatiyoso, regarding to the death of bird flu suspect patient named WD, 22 years old.
Head of Animal Health Division, Saptawan Hadiputra mentioned officials had collected about 25 chicken samples to be subjected for laboratory test, since they did not find any bird flu evidence by field investigation.
Victim is a meatball seller (meatball is bakso in Bahasa Indonesia. Typically, sellers are circulating with their cart to get costumers. -adm-), and suggested to have caught infection around his place in Cirebon. For this evidence, Livestock and Fishery Service of Kabupaten Karanganyar, Central Java, had contacted its counterpart in Kabupaten Cirebon, West Java for more investigation.
Wd, resident of Desa Wonorejo, Jatiyoso, possibly died of bird flu infection on Wednesday (20/1). Patient finally died after refused to be transferred from Wonogiri regional hospital to Dr Moewardi regional hospital to get medical treatment.
Source: Indonesia local newspaper, Solo Pos.
Cirebon, West Java; Rembang, Central Java ::: H5N1 outbreak in birds
January 28, 2010
Outbreak report from Cirebon, West Java. H5N1 seems to surge in Cirebon. Officials linked this incident with two suspected human cases, a 41-year-old and deceased 22-year-old.
Other report mentioned H5N1 in Kabupaten Rembang, also in birds.-adm-
Paliaman – Animal Health Center in Kaliwedi, Kabupaten Cirebon found bird flu H5N1 had been spreading to four villages in three sub-districts, Desa Ciawi, Kecamatan Paliaman, Desa Danawinangun and Desa Pekantingan, Kecamatan Klangenan and Desa Kedungsana, Kecamatan Plumbon.
Head of Animal Health Center Kaliwedi, Suharto said the virus currently transmitted among animals. Until now, no positive case in human found from those three sub-districts.
Meanwhile, Head of Health Service, Rinny R. Sechan confirmed that a resident of Keluarahan Tukmudal, Kecamatan Sumber, named Duramham Suherman (DS) had been treated in isolation unit of Gunung Jati regional hospital because of suspected of contracting bird flu (H5N1) infection.
DS had fever after contact with suddenly dead chickens before been admitted to hospital. Until now officials are still waiting blood test result for bird flu confirmation of DS.
Since it has been more than a week since the unfortunate death of this young man, presumably someone at the Indonesian Ministry of Health knows the test results.
As we’ve seen over the past couple of years, however, the MOH is often very slow to release such information.
