# 2870
The Revere's at Effect Measure today take on the recent reports of human H5N1 cases coming out of Indonesia, and the Health Ministry's ongoing reluctance to disclose information.
As senior public health scientists and practitioners, the Reveres are well qualified to comment on what we know, and more importantly, what we don't know about Indonesia's bird flu problem.
Highly recommended.
How much human bird flu in Indonesia?
Category: Bird flu
Flu season is in full swing and cases of bird flu seem to follow the same kind of seasonal pattern as "ordinary" flu. Last year more than half the reported human bird flu cases were in Indonesia. But the Indonesian health minister has already warned the world she was only going to tell us what was happening with human bird flu in her country when she felt like it, and apparently she doesn't feel like telling anyone. In December of 2007 (last flu season) Indonesia officially reported 4 cases of bird flu and the following month, January 2008, 9 more. February 2008 brought another 3. This flu season Indonesia has reported only four cases (2 in November, 2 in December). Nothing at all for calendar year 2009, while 14 cases have occurred elsewhere.
