# 1783
The question of course is . . . do they really have bird flu?
And we won't know that until tests come back, a process that will probably take several days. Until then, 8 (or possibly 10) residents of the Way Laga village in Indonesia's Lampung Province will remain in isolation.
Here is the way Xinhua News is reporting this story.
8 hospitalized in Indonesia for suspected bird flu
www.chinaview.cn
2008-03-13 16:49:18
JAKARTA, March 13 (Xinhua) -- Eight people from the same village in Indonesia's Lampung province were admitted to hospital allegedly for developing bird flu symptoms, local press said Thursday.
The patients, including two babies and two teenagers, all come from Way Laga village where dozens of chickens have died of the avian influenza.
They were sent to the state-run Abdul Moeloek Hospital in provincial capital Bandarlampung with high fever and respiratory problems after eating the infected chickens, reported the national Antara news agency.
Lampung is located in the southern tip of Sumatra island.
"The patients are placed in the isolated rooms and have undergone laboratory tests. But it takes several days before we get the results," the hospital's director Dr Wirman was quoted as saying.
I'll have more details on this, including a lengthy translation from the Lampung Post, in my next blog.
