#669
The Jakarta Post is reporting on what may be a suspected family cluster of H5N1 infection. Newshounds on the Internet have been following this story for the past 20 hours or so, attempting to translate local reports from Bahasa into English.
Unfortunately, the translation site had been offline for 3 days, making it nearly impossible to determine exactly what these reports were telling us. I'm happy to report that Toggletext (the translating site) is back online as of late last night.
We should be getting more details shortly.
Family suspected of having bird flu
BANDUNG, West Java: A five-member family were admitted to Slamet Hospital in Garut, West Java, on Saturday evening due to concerns they had contracted the bird flu virus.
Yogi Prayogi, spokesman for the hospital, said the family, ranging in age from 50 to six years old, were rushed to hospital suffering from respiratory problems and high fevers, symptoms associated with bird flu.
"Five of the family's chickens died suddenly and were buried in the front yard of their house. Not long after that, members of the family fell ill," Yogi said.
The condition of two of the family members was critical, both with temperatures above 39 degrees Celsius, he said. -- JP
As always, until we have confirmation through testing, these are only `suspected cases' of bird flu infection.
