Fri, 07/31/2009 8:14 PM
A 17-year-old girl was admitted Friday to the Wahidin Sudirohusodo Hospital in Makassar with what is suspected to be an H5N1 infection.
Hospital spokesman Khalid Saleh, said the teenager, identified as Rik, displayed symptoms of avian flu, including fever, cough, nausea and suffocation. She became sick after a number of chickens around her home suddenly died.
“A doctor who treated her said her temperature exceeded 39 degrees Celsius for three days and that she displayed other symptoms of avian flu,” Khalid said.
Rik is now receiving treatment in an isolation room, under the close watch of medical workers.
Head of the husbandry unit at the Makassar agriculture and maritime agency, Yulistiawati, said a government team had been assigned to conduct surveillance in Rik’s neighborhood in the Sudiang subdistrict in an effort to prevent the spread of the virus.
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