China, Indonesia: More people die from bird flu

On March 29, China confirmed the 15th death due to bird flu since the outbreak of H5N1 in late 2003.

The affirmation rang out to alert the community about national surveillance standards when death victims had no contact with infected birds.

According to the Chinese Ministry of Health, a boy surnamed Wu (Wu), 16 years old from the city of Bengbu, east of Anhui Province, died on Tuesday night, March 27, after being treated in the provincial hospital. This is almost 10 days. Hospitalized on March 18, he had symptoms of bird flu such as pneumonia, high fever, and muscle aches.

Fear of bird flu . Sellers no longer use duck hands but only move baskets of ducklings at a poultry market in Hefei, Anhui's love.(Source: Brisban Times)

Shortly after the boy's death, the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention conducted tests and confirmed that he was infected with the H5N1 bird flu virus.

The boy did not have a history of contact with infected or dead poultry due to H5N1, while no outbreak in poultry was reported in Anhui province.

"Of the 24 cases of bird flu in China, this is the 23rd person reported in places where we are not warned by the outbreak of bird flu," Joanna Brent, A spokesman for the World Health Organization (World Health Organization - WHO) in Beijing, said.

According to Joanna Brent, that is completely irrelevant to what bird flu is happening worldwide. In other countries, most human infections have evidence or outbreaks of bird flu or contact between victims with sick or dead birds from H5N1.

"China has handled this case very well, but the challenge for them is to increase testing and monitoring of H5N1 outbreaks in poultry," Brent said.

Also on March 29, the Indonesian Ministry of Health also added two other Indonesians died of H5N1 bird flu.

According to Runizar Ruesin, head of the Indonesian Ministry of Health's bird flu information center, one person died in Sumatra island and another died at a military hospital in Jakarta.

"In the first test, the patient's samples tested positive," said Runizar Ruesin. These deaths have raised the total number of deaths from bird flu in this Southeast Asian country to 71, the highest in the world.

Earlier, in the weekend, Indonesia officially confirmed 3 other cases of death from this disease among a total of nearly 90 people infected with influenza A / H5N1.

The Indonesian government hopes this year to prevent the number of people infected with bird flu. Scientists believe that the tendency for complex diseases has originated in southern China and spread everywhere. They fear that in the future, the virus could easily infect people and people, making the world suffer a pandemic that could kill millions of people.

Before China announced the 15th death case, WHO said that since 2003, the H5N1 strain has infected 284 people and 169 deaths in 12 Asian and African countries. Most victims are concentrated in Southeast Asia.

Vietnam is the country with the second largest number of deaths from bird flu in the world, 42 people. However, since 2005, Vietnam has not reported any more deaths.

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