Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Indonesia Ministry of Health: BIRD FLU CASE UPDATE #H5N1 #Birdflu

By: Puskom
January 10, 2012 | 6:30 pm
Ministry of Health, through the Directorate General of Disease Control and Environmental Health announced a new case of H5N1 have been confirmed by the Center for Biomedical and Health The basic technology, Health Research Agency.

The case on behalf of PD (male, 23 years) resident Sunter, North Jakarta, DKI Jakarta Province, who is a worker welding shops. PD experiencing symptoms of fever, cough and colds since 31 December 2011. To relieve the pain, he bought the drugs in a stall. Because the pain does not go away, on January 3, 2012, ambulatory patients to private hospitals in the area of ​​North Jakarta. On January 6, 2012, the patient experienced shortness of breath and was unconscious, so it must be transferred to the ICU. Subsequently, the patient was referred to referral hospitals AI, RSU Tangerang, Banten on January 7, 2012, but was not helped and the patient eventually died on the same day, at 22:50 pm.

To address this, epidemiological investigation has been done to the house of the patient and surrounding environment by Kemenkes Team and the local health office, and obtained the possibility of risk factors that direct contact with his own pet dove is sick and die.

With the increase of these cases, the cumulative number of bird flu in Indonesia since 2005 until this news broadcast is 183 cases with 151 deaths.

Director General of Disease Control and Environmental Health (PP & PL), Prof. dr. Tjandra Yoga Aditama, Sp (K), MARS, DTM & H, DTCE, vocal point as the International Health Regulations (IHR) have also been informed of this case to the WHO.

This information is published by the Center for Public Communication, Secretariat General of the Ministry of Health. For further information please contact via telephone number: 021-52907416-9, fax: 52921669, Response Quick Response Center (PTRC): 021-500567, or e-mail info@depkes.go.id, kontak@depkes.go. id.

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