Sunday, December 21, 2008

Indonesia: 10 subdistricts in Tangerang Efidemis Bird Flu

Minggu, 21 Desember 2008 16:04 WIB

Officially Kesehatan (Dinkes) the Tangerang Regency, Banten, maintained ten subdistricts that as the area epidemis or the cause territory and the spread of the bird flu virus or Avian Influenza (AI). "His spread was high enough to 10 subdistricts, the" headword "of" Dinkes" Kabupaten Tangerang Hani Heryanto in Tangerang, on Sunday (21/12). The 10 subdistricts from 36 subdistricts that were spread in the Tangerang Regency that became the area epidemis bird flu including Pondok Aren, Serpong, Serpong Utara, Cisauk, Panongan, Curug, Legok, Pasar Kemis, Gunung Kaler, dan Sepatan.

The "spread" of the "virus of kind bird flu H5N1 in the subdistrict territory often happened to human casualties and the poultry belonging to the community around," he said. According to him, the handling program and anticipation of the spreading of the bird flu virus were intensively carried out Dinkes Tangerang because of the deadly virus almost each year always claimed casualties died to humankind.

One of the implementations of the anticipation program of bird flu that is mensosialisasikan the deadly virus danger, stimulated the healthy life by means of washing the hands, and the simulation of the handling of bird flu casualties to humankind and the poultry. The Tangerang Regional Government budgeted for the fund from the Budget of the Income of the Daerah Expenses (APBD) in 2009 as big as Rp400 million for the socialisation activity of the danger and the handling of bird flu. The first time the case of the spread of the bird flu virus to humankind in Indonesia happened in June 2005 on behalf of Iwan Siswara and his two children in Villa housing of Melati Mas, Serpong, Tangerang Selatan. In the meantime, Dinkes Kabupaten Tangerang recorded the number of cases of the spread of bird flu reached 18 people with the number died totalling 16 people.

For the level of the Banten Province was recorded as the highest area in the case of bird flu in Indonesia since August 2006 till May 2008 with the total number positive bird flu in the centre of livestock breeding achieved 518 cases that consisted of 98 cases in the Tangerang City and 70 cases in the Tangerang Regency. The number of cases of bird flu to humankind since June 2005 till October 2008 in the Banten Province reached 28 with the number of deaths totalling 26 people. (Ant/OL-01)

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