# 6062
Overnight the newshounds on FluTrackers and the Flu Wiki have been closely following media reports coming out of Indonesia regarding a number of bird flu suspects from Gowa regency in South Sulawesi.
Thus far, all we seem to have are machine translated (from Bahasan) accounts, which admittedly, can be difficult to fully comprehend. A quick search of the Jakarta Post this morning turned up no mention of this event.
You can follow the evolution of this story via this FluTrackers Thread.
Briefly, reports indicate that in the past couple of weeks 3 villagers have died with supposed `bird-flu-like’ symptoms, and now 4 people are in isolation at Sudirohusodo Wahidin General Hospital, Makassar, South Sulawesi.
As far as I can tell, no one has tested positive for the H5N1 virus, so all of these – for now, anyway – are just suspected cases.
There are also reports indicating a number of others are hospitalized, or being treated, from the village as well.
A recent story from tvOne News, with a short video, can be viewed at the link below (text Google translated).
Suspected Bird Flu Infected, 4 Citizens Gowa Insulated
Tuesday, January 10, 2012 17:29 pm
Gowa Suspected bird flu, four citizens of Gowa regency, South Sulawesi, was recently forced to be isolated in the Hospital Dr. Wahidin Sudirohusodo, Makassar. All four patients had isolated after three other people died from the disease.
The four residents are still a family that Nasir, Nurbaya, Nusmiati and Wahid. Currently the fourth condition of these patients began to gradually improve.
To ensure that the cause of disease, the doctors are still awaiting results of blood tests from the lab.
Earlier, in the last two weeks three village residents Erelembang, Gowa regency is still one of this family died because of illness. The three men were allegedly infected with avian influenza virus disease.
If some of these cases turn out to be due to the H5N1 virus (suspected, but certainly not proven at this point), then this would represent a significant cluster. There are, of course, other illnesses that could produce similar symptoms and outcomes.
We’ll obviously await word of test results from these patients with considerable interest.
