Critical Suspect H5N1 in Tangerang Indonesia
Recombinomics Commentary 14:32
January 31, 2008
One patient was expected by bird flu again was treated in the Persahabatan Hospital, Rawamangun, Jakarta East. The patient have the initials Ny.S, 29 years, from Street Jati, Kota Baru, Tangerang.
According to the Head of RS Persahabatan Any Reputrawati public relations the patient entered struck 01,00 WIB, on Thursday (31-1).
The patient already a week suffered the sign of flu and the fever.
The condition for the patient at this time was critical, said Any.
The patient was treated in special intensive space bird flu.
The "inflammation" of the "lungs has been wide, he said."
And at this time to help breathing to be installed the ventilator.
The above translation describes yet another suspect H5N1 patient from Tangerang, Indonesia. Earlier this week four H5N1 cases from the Jakarta area were announced, and two were from Tangerang (both died). The suspect patient above is in critical condition, which in Indonesia is strongly linked to subsequent fatalities.
Although Tangerang has been a site of H5N1 infections, including the first confirmed cases in 2005, which were from a fatal cluster of three, the recent frequency of these fatal cases from Tangerang has increased.
Release of sequences from these cases would be useful.
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