Sunday, December 12, 2010

Commonground's Indonesia Commentary: Lack of Test Results Breed Distrust

I posted a list of suspected & confirmed cases in Indonesia since August 2010. It can be found here.

Indonesia's policy for suspected H5N1 patients, is to test them 4 times. The only problem I have, is that we never hear about the test results. We only hear about the 4th result. The 4th result is, for the most part, always negative. It would be negative, after being on Tamiflu for an extended period.

Indonesia has had 3 confirmed cases since August 2010 and the "suspected" cases are too many to count, as you can see in my list. Until Indonesia can disclose all test results on each case, and become more transparent, the suspected cases are worth mentioning, as I do not trust them.

Indonesia Human August 2010 +



Red Dot Postmark = confirmed
Red Postmark = suspected
Blue = diagnosis negative
Yellow = Malaria

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