H5N1 Bali Cluster Grows?
Recombinomics Commentary
August 13, 2007
It was more again startling, the patient that still these pre-schoolers evidently the neighbour Sri or from the Dangin Tukad Aya Series, Negara.
The patient was named Kadek Putri N. that was two years old nine months could be beforehand treated in RS Negara.
Apart from the grandchild, the father Kadek Putri has also had a temperature since last Thursday (9/8 ).
His father was sick thypus. Now still was treated in the house. The Kadek Putri possibility tertular his father because before he was sick, he slept with his father, explained Norni.
Concerning the poultry inspection, Sub- Rata added, was based on the latest report from the Peternakan Jembrana Service was found the positive poultry bird flu in this area.
The inspection was carried out on Saturday (11/8 ) . Only of his places not in the patient's house that was sick. His distance around 300.
The above translation describes the hospitalized neighbor of the family with two fatal infections which were almost certainly from H5N1. The dead birds in the neighborhood have tested positive for H5N1, as has the mother in the Bali cluster.
The diagnosis of typhus in the father of the neighbor remains highly suspect. Typhus has been the diagnosis of prior cases in Indonesia which subsequently tested positive for H5N1. Included in the misdiagnosed cases was a familial cluster in Lampung, which was subsequently tested for H5N1 because the family members were linked to an H5N1 confirmed case.
H5N1 testing of the father diagnosed with typhus would be useful.
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