AVIAN INFLUENZA, HUMAN (16): INDONESIA, SUSPECTED

Date: Fri 23 Jan 2009
Source: The Jakarta Post online [edited]
<http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2009/01/23/cirebon-women-treated-suspected-case-bird-flu.html>


Cirebon women treated for suspected case of bird flu
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A 35-year-old resident of Suka Imut village, Kuningan, West Java, has
been treated at Gunung Jati Hospital in Cirebon, as a suspected case
of bird flu, Antara news agency reported. She was admitted to the
hospital on Thursday night [22 Jan 2009], after being 1st treated at
a local hospital in Kuningan. She was immediately put in the bird flu
isolation unit.

Gunung Jati Hospital spokesperson Haris said Friday [23 Jan 2009]
that the patient was currently being treated and had been given
Tamiflu, an anti-influenza drug. Haris said the hospital sent a
sample of the patient's blood to be examined by the Health Ministry
in Jakarta. According to a neighbor of the woman who took her to the
hospital, she came down with a high fever after 4 of her chickens had died.

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M. Randolph Kruger
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