Monday, April 20, 2009

Indo: The Department of Health prepared the step faced the influenza pandemic

Monday, 20 April 2009 18:27 WIB
Excerpts:

The influenza illness has for a long time been known to be public by the community as the illness that was easy to spread through air, but had never been found by the case that made his sufferer until died. Although never finding the case of the death because of influenza,...


I believe what all of this is saying is that it has not gone human-to-human transmission yet. Rest of the article:

...but the Department's side of the Health announced their strategy to prevent the influenza expansion becoming the pandemic and claiming fatalities. The Department of Health sent this strategy in laman official they, this afternoon, with clarified that the Indonesian government prepared two scenarios that is to the location that the possibility was affected by the pandemic influlenza in in the Indonesian territory and episenter that happened outside the Indonesian territory.

To facilitate this strategy, the Department of Health also planned to carry out the simulation in the Makassar City on Saturday April 25 and on Sunday April 26 2009 and in the Dangin Tukadaya Village, Kabupaten Jembrana, Bali. -snip-

The other factor the formation of this strategy, according to the Head of the Harian Executive the Nasional Flu Burung Commission and Pendemi Influenza, Bayu Krisnamurthi, began the case emergence of the plague of world influenza.-snip-

At this time, said he, the global community was worrying if the bird flu virus (H5N1) that spread from the poultry to humankind, having a mutation, then could spread between humans.

In fact, said Bayu, not only bird flu, the pandemic could also happen resulting from the mutation of the other virus.

He added, the government of the centre and the area must co-operate faced the threat of the influenza pandemic. "Indonesia must immediately activate the simulation program and the response nationally," said Bayu.

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