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More Human Bird Flu in Indonesia
Thursday, 22 January, 2009
An Indonesian Health Ministry statement on 21 January 2009 reports on two deaths after apparent contact with sick chickens. A 6-year-old girl in Bekasi, West Java, got sick after buying a chicken with her parents at a market and was hospitalized for a week. She died on 2 Jan 2009. In Tangerang just outside Jakarta a 29-year-old woman developed flu-like symptoms after visiting a market and died in a hospital 5 days later on 16 Dec 2008 .Double laboratory testing confirmed they had the H5N1 strain of avian influenza. These cases bring the total for Indonesia to 141 cases of whom 115 have died.
Because Indonesia has declared itself to be endemic for avian influenza new outbreaks in poultry are only reported six-monthly and are not posted on our Health Alerts unless human cases are reported.
