# 2276
A pledge to limit the amount of sarcasm in my blogs prevents me from opening this blog with Stop the Presses!
After all, the assumption has been for a very long time that we aren't hearing about all of the bird flu cases in Indonesia. We are likely missing cases from other parts of the world as well.
That is hardly news.
It is, however, unusual to see it admitted in the Indonesian media. Below we are told that 70% of bird flu cases go unreported in Indonesia.
At least that is the number used by Amen Soebandrio at an Avian Influenza workshop in Jakarta. How that number was derived wasn't made clear.
Amen Soebandrio was the first speaker at the Bali Flu Conference last spring, however, and his credentials in Indonesia are obviously substantial.
This machine translation is rough (they almost always are), and it is difficult to tell whether or not this 70% gap in reporting applies equally to human cases as well as birds.
It is also a bit difficult to fathom how you can assign a number (like 70%) to something which, quite obviously, hasn't been counted. I'll assume it's a best `guesstimate'.
In any event, this is further `evidence' that we are only hearing part of the bird flu story from Indonesia. Big surprise.
This from news.okezone.com. A hat tip to Dutchy on Flutrackers for posting this translation.
4 September 2008
Indonesia Only reported 30% Cases of Bird Flu
Jakarta - the Case avian influenza or bird flu in Indonesia including highest in in the Asian region. Unfortunately, only 30 percent that was reported to the health body of the world like WHO and FAO.
This was revealed by the Deputy the Sipteknas Field, Kementerian of the Riset Country and Technology (KNRT) Amen Soebandrio in gaps workshop Avian Influenza in the Lipi Building, Gatot Subroto, Jakarta, on Thursday (4/9/2008).
"This because Indonesia did not yet have the complete and accurate data." Indeed if the death of the poultry was not reported, but if the case of the death of the humankind because of being not detected by "words Amin."
This, he continued, was caused from the community's reluctance to report this case. "They were frightened if being reported will cause the problem," he stated. Amin also acknowledged, still many weaknesses in surveilance also increased the list of the lack of the data. "Ought to be reported periodically, was not waiting for a certain case," he stressed.
In the meantime, he continued, to 2008 Indonesia experienced the case of the decline in bird flu. "Indeed this something that was positive, but not meant us ignored him." Justeru in the case of the decline, we must be on the alert because the incident to the poultry continued to be and humankind continued to be threatened, "he said."
