# 6299
Several news outlets overnight are reporting on the death of an 8 year-old child on the Indonesian island of Bali, ostensibly from the H5N1 virus.
While some of these media reports vaguely indicate a positive lab finding for H5N1, others suggest that the girl’s diagnosis was based on clinical signs and symptoms. Until the Indonesian Ministry of Health confirms this case, it remains `suspected’.
Gert van der Hoek on FluTrackers has picked up and translated a couple of media reports on this case (another has been added by Shiloh) on this thread.
A translated excerpt from Antara news reads:
Patient Died With Clinical Condition for Bird Flu
Wednesday, in April 25 2012
Denpasar (Antara Bali) - A Patient was suspected bird flu, with initial P (8) died when undergoing the maintenance in the central Public Hospital, Denpasar, clinically showed the condition was attacked by this deadly illness.
"We indeed treated the patient that clinically his direction to bird flu, afterwards was based on the laboratory inspection simply in RSUD Bangli also showed the picture" of the "virus infection," said the Secretary of the Penanggulangan Committee of the Flu Burung Rumah Sakit Umum Pusat Illness (RSUP) Sanglah, Dr IGB Ken Wirasandhi, on Wednesday.
He said, so as the patient of the female child from Kintamani, Kabupaten Bangli, that was at once treated in Nusa space as isolation space for the bird flu sufferer, since his arrival on Tuesday afternoon (24/4) around struck 17,00 Wita.
If confirmed, this case would make the 7th known H5N1 case on the island of Bali.
The H5N1 virus remains poorly adapted to human physiology, and so far remains primarily a threat to poultry and wild birds.
That could change of course, as the dozens of strains and clades around the world continue to mutate and evolve. So we watch these cases with great interest, looking for any signs that the threat has changed.
