# 5093
From newshound extraordinaire Dutchy, we’ve a new thread this afternoon on FluTrackers following reports of a 21 year-old woman from from West Java, Indonesia who has been on a ventilator for several days and is suspected of being infected with the H5N1 virus.
As always, until we get laboratory confirmation, this is only a suspected case of bird flu.
Here is Dutchy’s machine translation of the report from http://us.bandung.detik.com/.
Unexpected First Bird Flu Patient Treated in RSHS
Oris Riswan Budiana – detikBandung
Bandung - The first patient suspected H5N1 virus or bird flu in West Java this year, being treated at Hasan Sadikin (RSHS) since 22 November. K, 21-year-old woman was living in Bandung Kulon area.
This was confirmed by CEO RSHS Bayu Wahyudi when found in RSHS, Pasteur Road, on Friday (11/26/2010).
"Yes, there is a patient being treated, the situation is serious. She came 22 November with the state of pneumonia (inflammation of the lung - editor), shortness of breath, decreased consciousness, and other symptoms," said Bayu.
He explained that K Flamboyan treated at the Isolation Room. K is placed in that space because the symptoms of respiratory disease severe enough.
As is known, space is a special place for the treatment of patients with severe respiratory disease. For example, patients with H1N1 or swine flu (now called influenza A H1N1) and H5N1 or bird flu.
"We still do the examination and the results hopefully in the near future can be known," he said.
Based on the information collected, the woman suspected of contracting bird flu. That's because the clinical condition of the patient's body become heavy overnight. In fact, patients fitted with a ventilator or a ventilator since the first day of treatment.
Additional reports, when they are released, will be placed in this thread. You may also wish to follow @Dutchy on Twitter.
I will update this story when we have more information.
Currently outbreaks of H5N1 occur primarily in birds, although sporadic,widely scattered human cases are reported around the world as well – most commonly in Egypt and Indonesia.
Most (but not all) have been linked to close contact with infected poultry or birds. The source of infection in a small number of human cases isn’t known.
While the virus has yet to adapt well enough to human hosts to transmit effectively between people, scientists still fear the virus could mutate into a pandemic strain someday.
