Suspected Bird Flu Patient Titin
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The past 24 hours or so has seen a slowdown in the number of media reports coming out of Indonesia. Patients remain hospitalized, some for as long as week, and we have no test results announced on them. They remain in the `suspect' category. New patients drift in each day, and we get word of some patients being taken off the `suspect' list, and declared negative.
To date, only 5 patients have been certified as having the H5N1 virus in this most recent event in Indonesia. Four of those have died. Many of the suspected cases, currently under investigation, will no doubt turn out to be something other than bird flu.
In this report from MetroTvOnline, we get a pretty good roundup of the cases currently hospitalized in Indonesia. A hat tip to Dutchy at Flutrackers for finding this one.
The government Prepare RS Reconciliation of the Bird Flu Patient
Metrotvnews.com, Jakarta: the Government continued to push the stabilisation of readiness 44 hospitals of reconciliation of the bird flu patient in various areas.
It was increasingly fast that the patient who was reconciled to the hospital in relation to the assumption of bird flu, was the action that was exact to get help selekas him.
At least till at this time, 36 bird flu patients were still being treated in various hospitals in several areas, especially in the Javanese Island.
In Jakarta, at least 14 patients suspect bird flu was treated.
Seven people were treated in the Sulianti Saroso Hospital, Jakarta North and seven other was treated in the Friendship Hospital, Jakarta East.
In West Java, 14 patients suspect bird flu that was treated.
Nine patients were treated in the Handsome Sadikin Hospital (Bandung), three people in the Rotinsulu Hospital (Bandung) and a person in RS Doctor Slamet (Garut) as well as another in RSUD Majalengka.
In Yogyakarta, two patients suspect bird flu was treated in the Hospital Doctor Sarjito.
In Semarang, Central Java, a person was treated in RS Doctor Karyadi.
A patient suspect bird flu was also treated in RSU Balikpapan.(Borneo/Kalimantan)
This patient was waiting for the assurance produced by the sample inspection of his blood from Jakarta.
In the meantime in Palembang, West Sumatra, four bird flu patients were treated in RS Muhamad Husni.Three including being ascertained by the bird flu negative.
Tracking the patients through the media reports, trying to determine who has been tested positive, or negative, or discharged, or remains hospitalized, is a daunting task. The newshounds on the flu forums are doing an amazing job of this, 24 hours a day.
In recent days we've heard reports of families of suspected bird flu patients being ostracized by their neighbors, and even requests by families that hospitals not release information. This is making this story more difficult to follow from half a world away.
In addition to the patients listed above, there are another 20 or so being treated in their homes with Tamiflu, according to local media reports.
The isolation wards of several hospitals are full, and patients have reportedly been sent to outlying hospitals. This article refers to efforts to prepare 44 hospitals to receive bird flu patients in an attempt to address that problem.
And finally, we have this report from Liputan 6 TV news. A suspected bird flu patient, they report, has died.
19 January 16:38
Liputan6.com, Garut:Titin, the assumption patient of bird flu that was treated in the doctor's Hospital Slamet, Garut, of West Java, died, on Friday (19/1).
The deceased blew out the last breath after could be treated in the hospital for five days.
According to Roro Suhari, the sample of his wife's blood in fact has been taken by the official of the hospital.
But unfortunately results till at this time were not yet known.
The Titin condition then worsened since overnight.
Roro added, the Titin body is currently put into the case in accordance with the recommendation of the hospital side.
The plan is, the body is at once buried today in Garut.
It should be stressed that, at this time, we have no confirmation that Titin was infected with the H5N1 virus. Tests are still pending.
