Indonesia: Two and a half days, one person died of H5N1

In May 2006, an average of 1 person died every 2.5 days from bird flu in Indonesia. So far, at least 36 people have died from bird flu.

The total number of deaths from this disease worldwide is 127 since the outbreak in 2003.

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Today, June 2, Director of the Center for Combating Avian Influenza of the Indonesian Ministry of Health, Runizar Rusin, led the test results, saying a 7-year-old girl and a 15-year-old Indonesian boy died in This week is due to bird flu infection.

According to Rusin, the girl named Yohana, who lives in the Pamulang district, southwest of Jakarta, died one evening after being treated at a hospital in the capital, and her son died on May 30. In Bandung, the capital of West Java province, there are test results positive for bird flu. Samples of these two cases were sent to a laboratory of the World Health Organization (WHO) for confirmation.

Current concerns focus on the case that six members of a family in a village in Sumatra island are killed by bird flu. Experts have not found a source of infection among these family members, so they have suspected human-to-human transmission.

However, no one other than the intestines of this family is sick, so experts believe that the virus has not been mutated. Experts assume that some people may have genes that are susceptible to bird flu .

Experts say the best way to control bird flu in Indonesia is to focus on poultry. However, this issue has not been thoroughly implemented.

Many local governments still refuse to destroy a lot of poultry in infected areas, and vaccination is not fully implemented. Meanwhile, such measures have helped countries that have suffered Avian influenza such as Vietnam and Thailand control epidemics.

Both countries have strong guidelines from the government, and the government has taken the lead in quitting.

According to the WHO, the actual number of H5N1 infections in Africa, China and Indonesia may actually be much higher than the published figures. The reason is because the compensation for farmers for poultry that is destroyed is so low that they continue to be sneaky and infected.

According to WHO, the current solution is that rich countries should support poor countries in the program to compensate for the destruction of poultry, while increasing the warning information about the danger of H5N1 for farmers. .