# 4780
Overnight a couple of different newshounds have located, translated, and posted a report from Depkes – The Indonesian Ministry of Health – that seems to announce a previously unknown H5N1 fatality from July.
Arkanoid Legent has the story with Indonesia : Bird Flu Case Statements To July 2010, which has a Google translation of the statement from Indonesia's Ministry of Health. Crof at Crofsblog picked up the story overnight.
Meanwhile, Alert on FluTrackers found and posted the same story last night here.
Although it yields roughly the same results, for comparative reasons I’ve run the original article through the ToggleText translator, excerpts of which are below.
The REPORT on the CASE of SAMPAI BIRD FLU in July 2010
In July 2010 was gotten by the addition of one positive case of bird flu (H5N1) on behalf of YE (P, 34 years) the resident of the Tangerang regency, Banten. The case was reported positive was infected H5N1 was based on results of the Litbangkes Body inspection on July 12 2010.
YE (P, 34 years) a teacher the Senior Secondary School (the SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL) private enterprise in the Tangerang Regency on July 2 2010 went to the doctor the practice of private enterprise with the sign of the fever, the cough, and was sick the throat. Because of not yet recovering, 2 days afterwards, the sufferer again took medicine back to private enterprise's doctor and direct in referred to the hospital swatsa in the Tangerang city.
While being treated, the sufferer experienced the high fever, had a headache, was sick the throat, the cough, crowded and diarrhoea. While 3 days were treated, the YE condition continued to worsen. Moreover on July 7 2010 crowded him was increasingly heavy. Results x-rayed showed the existence of difficult pneumonia. YE was afterwards treated in ICU space (intensive care the unit) as well as was taken the specimen wiped off the throat and the nose. The sufferer died on that day also around struck 13,34 WIB.
The risk factor still could not be ascertained. But was received by information, ten days before was sick (in June 2010) the sufferer carried out the trip to Banda Lampung.
Although we’ve seen several media reports of suspected bird flu fatalities coming out of Indonesia over the past month, the details of this report do not seem to match any of them.
If confirmed by the WHO, this will be the sixth official H5N1 case for Indonesia in 2010, and the fifth fatality. How representative of reality those numbers really are is anyone’s guess.
Sporadic human infections with the bird flu virus continue to occur in regions where the virus is endemic.
Human-to-human transmission remains rare, however, as the virus has not adapted well to humans.
Last month the Eurosurveillance Journal gave us an overview of the spread of H5N1 in humans since 2003(see Eurosurveillance: 500 H5N1 Cases After 6 1/2 Years).
The author’s conclusion was that while the number of cases reported has dropped, the overall situation has not improved appreciably since the virus re-emerged in 2003.
That the threat of the virus someday adapting to humans remains.
