Padang, West Sumatera – Bird flu suspect in M Djamil hospital is recovering. “The body temperature has recovered to 36℃, and the breathing is getting better. But we will continue the observation until test result issued by Ministry of Health laboratory,” said General Director of M Djamil hospital, Aguswan.
M is treated in isolation unit because developed fever after treating a deceased bird flu suspect patient, RK. M is one of the paramedics in bird flu isolation unit Iran C Internal Medicine of M Djamil hospital.
Several examinations including blood and throat sample collections have been done. Samples have been sent to Ministry of Health laboratory for further examination.
Meanwhile, hospital is still treating the patient until lab confirmation released.
Source: Indonesia local newspaper, Padang Today.
http://www.padang-today.com/index.php?today=news&id=7553
===AvianInfluenzaIndonesia===
July 8, 2009 at 11:31 am
Good Grief Ida a new flu in canada. What is going on here?
July 8, 2009 at 11:35 am
I haven’t checked the news. can you give me the link?
July 8, 2009 at 12:07 pm
http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/media/nr-rp/2009/2009_0707-eng.php
July 8, 2009 at 12:07 pm
What do you think?
July 8, 2009 at 12:31 pm
I haven’t check it ryan. Pretty busy right now. I’ll check it later.
Thank’s anyway..
July 8, 2009 at 1:20 pm
In some cases (but pretty rare), human can get infection from swine derived flu virus. Well actually, pig virus derived from human, so I don’t know who infects who
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Usually it happens to people who have very close and frequent contact with pigs (but again this is very rare and limited). They usually showed very mild symptoms, but it’s up to the the individual factors too
July 8, 2009 at 1:50 pm
This is a reassortment virus, so will this one spread like pandemic h1n1?
July 8, 2009 at 3:44 pm
I don’t think it won’t be that easy. Reassortant happens, you know. But it needs certains adaption to reach effective transmissibility.