Sijunjung, West Sumatera ::: Bird flu suspects

Sijunjung, West Sumatera – Bird flu suspects detected in Kabupaten Sijunjung, West Sumatera. Two bird flu suspect patients, Bareno (25) and his wife Erna (21), residents of Jorong Tigokorong, Lubuaktarok are treated at M. Djamil hospital in Padang.

“Patients have been treated for a week. Their blood samples have been sent to laboratory, and we are still waiting for bird flu infection confirmation,” said the official of Lubuaktarok, Rusli, on Tuesday (27/10). Before transferred to M Djamil hospital, Rusli added, patients were treated at public health center of Lubuaktarok of high fever accompanied with blood discharge from nose.

Subsequent to this incident, Livestock Service of Kabupaten Sijunjung culled thousands of bird flu suspected chickens.

Similar incidents occurred also in Tanahbadantuang, Nagari Sijunjung, where number of people developed high fever. “I had high fever and my body turned reddish. Lot of people showed similar signs and got medical help from public health center. We don’t know what the cause is,” described a local of Kabupaten Sijunjung.

Source: Indonesia local newspaper, Padang Today.

http://padang-today.com/?today=news&id=10500

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Bukittinggi, West Sumatera ::: Hospital treats two bird flu suspect patients

Bukittinggi, West Sumatera – After an idle, bird flu human suspects patients are reported from Bukitttinggi. Achmad Mochtar hospital (RSAM) in Bukittinggi is treating two bird flu H5N1 suspect patients. The condition of patients are improving.

Patients are BPT (7), – resident of Jalan Sukma Payakumbuh Utara – admitted to hospital on Thursday (22/10), and FR (5) – resident of Padang Data Payakumbuh – admitted to hospital on Saturday (24/10), confirmed Vice director of Medical and Treatment Service of RSAM, dr Khairul Said.

Both patients were referred from Adnan hospital in Payakumbuh which is one of bird flu referral hospital.

Currently, patients are treated at isolation unit of RSAM Bukittinggi and receiving Tamiflu.

Both patients have contact history with suddenly dead birds around their neighborhoods.

A flock of quails reared by BPT’s family is reported suddenly died before the onset of illness. Chickens and ducks farms which exist in FR’s neighborhood, experienced mass bird deaths prior to FR’s illness.

Both patients had high fever up to 39℃ at the time of admission to hospital. However, after received treatment their conditions have improved and temperature fell to 36℃.

For bird flu H5N1 confirmation, hospital is waiting for result issued by Ministry of Health laboratory in Jakarta.

Source: Indonesia local newspaper, Padang Today. http://padang-today.com/?today=news&id=10464#

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Asahan, North Sumatera ::: Six-year-old bird flu suspect patient

Asahan, North Sumatera – Six-year-old bird flu suspect patient, Ayub, a resident of Dusun I Desa Air Genting, Kabupaten Asahan is being treated at Abdul Manan Simatupang, North Sumatera.

Patient is reported having fever subsequent to contact with suddenly dead animals. Numbers of animal were reported dead of unknown cause around patient’s neighborhood. Instead of Ayub, no other high fever in human cases is reported from the area.

Livestock Service of Asahan has done further investigation of H5N1 possibility to the dead animals, and resulted negative.

For H5N1 confirmation, Health Service of Kabupaten Asahan sent blood and serum samples of patient to be sent to Ministry of Health laboratory in Jakarta. Laboratory confirmation will be issued within 2 weeks.

 

Source: Indonesia local newspaper, Medan Bisnis Online.

http://www.medanbisnisonline.com/2009/10/26/diduga-flu-burungdarah-ayub-dikirim-ke-jakarta/I

Central Java, West Java and Bengkulu ::: Bird flu in chickens

 

Purworejo, Central Java

Purworejo, Yogyakarta – During 2009, a total 608 birds in Kabupaten Purworejo, Central Java died of bird flu virus. Confirmation of bird flu infection to the dead chickens was done by the rapid test, told head of Marine, Livestock and Fishery Service of Kabupaten Purworejo.

Bird flu attack most prevalent in Kecamatan Ngombol with total chicken deaths 511, followed by Kecamatan Purwodadi with 45 chickens, Kecamatan Butuh with 23 chickens, Purworejo with 21 chickens and Kecamatan Bayan with 6 chickens.

 

Source: Indonesia local newspaper, Kedaulatan Rakyat. http://www.krjogja.com/krjogja/news/detail/5789/608.Ekor.Unggas.Mati.Diserang.AI.html

 

Sumedang, West Java

Sumedang, West Java – Number of chickens belong to people in Karapyak neighborhood, Kelurahan Situ, Kecamatan Sumedang Utara tested positive bird flu infection by rapid test.

Chickens were found suddenly died without any particular signs. People immediately buried those dead chickens. Even though, remaining dead chickens have been examined and tested positive of H5N1 virus by Livestock Service of Kabupaten Sumedang.

For further confirmation, Livestock Service will collect blood samples from total chicken at the suspected area.

So far, no indication of H5N1 bird to human transmission.

 

Source: Indonesia local newspaper, Priangan On Line.

http://prianganonline.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=375&Itemid=40

 

Bengkulu

Bengkulu – Number of chickens in Kecamtan Uran Jaya, Bengkulu were reported suddenly died. This incident has alarmed people of bird flu H5N1 infection, particularly a local of Uram Jaya died of unknown cause.

A chicken owner from Desa Kota Agung, mentioned that his chickens appeared healthy and suddenly died in minutes. Dead chickens showed darkened of comb without any other signs of illness.

People discarded dead chickens to the river, which is commonly utilized by local for bathing and water drink source.

Authority of Kecamatan Uram Jaya, Safiluddin, admitted that he had received the report from the chieftains regarding to this incident. Safiluddin stated there is no correlation regarding to human fatalities reported in Kecamatan Uram Jaya with bird flu infection. “No report of high fever in people,” Safiluddin pointed out.

 

Source: Indonesia local newspaper, Harian Rakyat Bengkulu. http://www.harianrakyatbengkulu.com/ver3/mod.php?mod=publisher&op=viewarticle&cid=13&artid=5139

 

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