# 4346
The Indonesian press is reporting yet another suspected H5N1 infection, this time in the Serang regency (Banten province is divided into 4 regencies; Lebak, Pandeglang, Serang, and Tangerang).
This translation is from Ida at the Bird Flu Information Corner. You can find other reports and translations by newshounds at FluTrackers in this thread, and in Flu WIki’s Indonesian thread.
As of now, this is simply a suspect case, as there are a number of other illnesses that can mimic H5N1 symptoms. Lab tests are awaited. Hopefully, those results will be made public.
Serang, Banten ::: Fifty-year-old bird flu suspect man
February 12, 2010
Cilegon, Banten – A 50-year-old man, with initial S, is treated in isolation unit of Serang regional hospital. Patient was transferred to Serang regional hospital from Grogol public health center, Cilegon.
Hospital’s spokesman, Yopi Triana S said that patient arrived in Serang regional hospital on Wednesday (10/1) afternoon with body temperature 37℃. According to patient’s family, S developed fever after had direct contact with suddenly died chickens nearby his house. Patient also showed common signs of bird flu infection such as, sore throat, and low of leukocyte (white blood cell) count for less than 5,000 per mL blood, added Yopi.
S is first bird flu suspect treated in Serang regional hospital in 2010. The hospital had treated 27 bird flu suspect patients in 2009. One of them had died before laboratory confirmed, meanwhile remaining 26 cases were negative.
Source: Indonesia local newspaper, Radar Banten.
