Indonesia: No Infected Poultry Near Recent Death of Child in Bekesi

Toddlers in Bekasi Allegedly Died of Bird Flu

Anna Hospital medical team's diagnosis stating his or suspect H5N1 bird flu.

Nazril Ilham, toddler 3.5 years old, died after her parents owned a dozen birds get sick and die suddenly.

Nazril of Kampung Sungai Bintaro Four Branches RT 01 RW 01, Village Huripjaya Babelan District, District of West Java, Jakarta, died on Tuesday, January 24, 2012. Before he died he was undergoing treatment at the Hospital of Mother and Child (RSIA) Anna Bay North Jakarta District Pucung Bekasi.

Maemunah Nazril's mother said that the hospital medical team diagnosed Anna declared her son suspected H5N1 or bird flu. Early symptoms develop high heat to 39 degrees, since Friday, January 20, 2012.

"It was a new doctor estimated my son bird flu, doctors still want to double-check his blood again," said Maemunah, Wednesday, January 25, 2012.

Chief Medical Officer Bekasi Muharmansyah Boestari, requested that the first death of Nazril not associated with bird flu. "It is too early to conclude Nazril deaths due to bird flu. We sampled blood was examined in the laboratory Salianti Suroso Hospital Jakarta," he said.

DVO Bekasi Muharmansyah said, have examined poultry bred d imana parents tested negative bird flu. "If there was bird flu Animal Husbandry Department would do the spraying disinfectant," he continued.

While Head of Animal Husbandry Department of Fisheries and Marine District Jakarta, Agus Trihono, make sure the case of bird flu disease Nazril not. "My team has been receiving reports since 17 January. It was about 15 duck's parents died suddenly, some had been buried," he said.

The team from the Department of Agriculture has examined several dead birds that have not been buried, and the results were negative. Examination of the rapid tests, said Agus, found no spread of the H5N1 virus in poultry in the vicinity where the victim lived.

"Our officers do a bird three times and the results were all negative," he said. Poultry Nazril's parents die one by one. "The possibility of dead birds due to the change from hot to rainy weather. Factors that affect the poultry deaths," he said. (Umi)