H5N1 Confirmed in Third Jakarta Case
Recombinomics Commentary
January 12, 2007
Two bird flu patients who at this time were treated in the Friendship Hospital, Jakarta East, his condition increasingly worsened.
They Ania, 22 years, and Zuraini, 29 years, mentioned like that.
The doctor diagnosed deterioration in all the cavities in the lungs as well as the decline in oxygen in blood happened.
The above translation describes two more patients in critical condition in Jakarta. Media reports describe a 22M who has tested positive, but that person is almost certainly the 22F described above. The positive patient is the third confirmed case in the Jakarta area hospitalized at Friendship hospital.
Suspect cases continue to come into the hospital, including three teenagers from Bekasi, the location of several previously confirmed H5N1 cases. Other clusters of suspect cases include approximately 20 patients in Bogor, just south of Jarkarta, as well as Bandung to the east, and Lampung in South Sumatra to the west. Both areas have also previously reported confirmed cases.
The explosion of confirmed cases and suspect clusters are cause for concern. The confirmed cases have been limited to the most critical cases. Two have died and the third, described above, is deteriorating, raising concerns over false negatives for the milder cases. Many earlier suspect cases have recovered.
Most, or all, suspect patients have been placed on Tamiflu, which may limit H5N1 detection. The number of suspect cases is very high and antibody testing of convalescent sera would be useful to more accurately determine the number of H5N1 infected patients in Indonesia.
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