Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Indonesia: Quiz Tarzan to the city

- Sandra Dewi

Kapanlagi.com - Banten still include three major provinces in Indonesia, in the case of bird flu, with the number of cases to November 2008 are 28 cases and 25 persons died.

"Cases of bird flu in Banten still high compared to other regions, especially in Serang and Tangerang District. However, still below the Jakarta and West Java," said Coordinating surveillance and the National Commission for Integrated Management of Monitoring Avian and Pandemic Influenza (FBPI) Heru Setijanto journalism workshop on bird flu in Pandeglang, Tuesday (16/12).

According to Heru, the number of cases of bird flu in Indonesia to November 2008 were 139 positive cases of bird flu, with the number of the victims died as many as 113 people, among them 18 people died in 2008. Meanwhile, the estimated amount of economic losses due to bird flu cases from 2004 to 2008 is estimated at Rp4, 1 trillion.

He said that since 2003 up to 2008 as many as 31 of 33 provinces is a bird flu infected area and as many as 294 of 498 districts / cities with the number of deaths reached 13 million poultry. Two regions or two provinces that are still free from bird flu up to now is the province of North Maluku and Gorontalo.

Low incidence of bird flu cases occurred in 13 provinces in Indonesia, among others, NTB, NTT Papua, West Papua. Regional endemics in the phase 3 occurred in 18 provinces in the island of Java, Sumatra, Bali and Sulawesi. However, until the last six months there has been no report about the case.

AI workshop held Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Banten province with Unicef was held in the District of Carita, Pandeglang, Banten, and followed by dozens of journalists, print and electronic media.

In these workshops will be conducted to review a village in the district of Labuan, Pandeglang, which is implementing the flu virus anticipate transmission is in the form of field study of local content of bird flu in schools.

hat-tip Sally

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