10-NOV-2008
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PRO/AH/EDR> Avian influenza, human (72): Indonesia, suspAVIAN INFLUENZA, HUMAN (72): INDONESIA, SUSPECTED
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Date: Fri 7 Nov 2008
Source: Adnkronos International (AKI)/Jakarta Post [edited]
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Indonesian teenager dies of suspected bird flu in Java
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A 15 year old Indonesian [girl from Semarang] is believed to have died from
suspected bird flu in Central Java on Friday [7 Nov 2008].
A total of 113 people have died of avian influenza or bird flu in
Indonesia, the worst affected country in the world. Agus Suryanto, a
medical official, said that [the girl] died from respiratory failure that
followed a high fever. "There was a chance that she got infected by bird
flu as she had been living nearby a chicken abattoir," Agus told
kompas.com. He said that the hospital had taken and diagnosed [?] a blood
sample from the patient but was still waiting for the results of the test.
The Ministry of Health of Indonesia in September [2008] retrospectively
announced 2 confirmed cases of human infection with the H5N1 avian
influenza virus. According to the UN World Health Organization, of the 138
cases confirmed to date in Indonesia, 113 have been fatal. A total of 246
deaths have been recorded worldwide. [As of 10 Sep 2008 (the latest
report), WHO's table of the cumulative number of confirmed human cases of
avian influenza A/(H5N1) gives the number of deaths in Indonesia as 112 and
the number of cases as 137; see
<http://www.who.int/csr/disease/avian_influenza/country/cases_table_2008_09_10/en/index.html>.
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