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A two-year boy suspected of contracting bird flu, identified as Wahyu Ibnu Saputra, died at Arifin Achmad Public Hospital in Pekanbaru, capital of Indonesia' s Riau Province on Thursday. Wahyu died after suffering respiratory problems and falling unconscious, said Dr Azizman Saad, coordinator of the bird flu control at the Arifin Achmad hospital, as saying in Pekanbaru on Thursday.
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Four people have been confirmed dead by avian influenza in Indonesia since January this year, head of the national bird flu commission Bayu Krisnamurthi said on Tuesday. "Four deaths by bird flu have been confirmed in January and February," Krisnamurthi told. The deaths have brought the total fatality by the virus to 117 out of 143 infected people.
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Two people have died from bird flu near the Indonesian capital of Jakarta. According to the country's health ministry, the victims were a 29-year-old woman who died in December and a 5-year-old girl who died earlier this month.
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Health officials in Indonesia say a 15-year-old girl has died of bird flu in central Java, bringing the country's death toll from the disease to 113. The girl died last week after being treated at a hospital in the Central Javanese city of Semarang.
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Indonesia hopes negotiations on the material transfer agreement for bird flu virus specimen can be rounded up at the inter-governmental meeting of WHO members in November, health minister Siti Fadillah Supari said. Indonesia hopes the agreement can be kept simple but it has to able to accommodate the interests of the developing countries, Antara news agency on Friday quoted the minister as saying.
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Avian Influenza virus has hit Indonesia killing three people with 13 others admitted to hospital with symptoms. Residents in Asahan district of North Sumatra province say last week, villagers began showing symptoms of avian flu after a large number of chickens died suddenly. A baby boy and a seven year old girl were transferred early this morning to a bird flu isolation unit at Adam Malik hospital in the provincial capital of Medan.
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A 19 year-old Indonesian man has died of bird flu, putting total death to 112 in the country, Director General of Communicable Disease Control at the health ministry Nyoman Kandun said on Sunday. The man working for cargo died last week at Tanggerang town in the outskirts of Jakarta, the director said.
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Genetic information about Indonesia’s bird flu virus will be available to researchers who have been monitoring the disease. A free global database launched Thursday will give scientists and health experts access to influenza virus samples and genetic sequencing in an effort to make sure the disease isn’t mutating to a form that could spread more easily between people.
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A toddler from Central Java has died from bird flu, putting the total death toll in Indonesia alone to 108, according to information released by the Health Department on Wednesday. The 3-year-old first showed symptoms of flu and breathing difficulties on April 17. He died just five days later after he was already admitted to a local hospital, told Lily Sulistyowati from the department.
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An Indonesian health official, responding to recent comments by the US health secretary, today denied that Indonesia wants financial compensation if it resumes sharing its H5N1 avian influenza virus samples.
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Two children have died from bird flu, a health ministry official said on Monday, taking the confirmed death toll in the country worst affected by the virus to 107. A 15-year-old boy from Subang, in West Java, died on Wednesday in an area where chickens had died, said Nyoman Kandun, director general of communicable disease control at the ministry.
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Indonesia dismissed fears of a virus re-assortment between avian and human seasonal influenza strains in a 2007 human death involving bird flu infection, the country's health ministry senior official said here. Director General of Communicable Diseases I Nyoman Kandun said the possibility of re-assortment between the avian influenza virus and other flu viruses was always possible, but had not yet happened.
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Eight people from the same village in Indonesia's Lampung province were admitted to hospital allegedly for developing bird flu symptoms, local press said Thursday. The patients, including two babies and two teenagers, all come from Way Laga village where dozens of chickens have died of the avian influenza.
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Indonesia's health ministry said today that H5N1 avian influenza virus samples it sent to a World Health Organization (WHO) laboratory in the United States in February showed no signs of mutation, according to a Reuters report.
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A 3-year-old Indonesian boy has died of bird flu, bringing the nation's death toll from the disease to 105, health officials said Saturday. It was the second bird flu death reported in one day in Indonesia, where health officials announced earlier that a 16-year-old boy from Central Java province had also died from the disease.
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A 29-year-old Indonesian woman from Tangerang, west Jakarta, has died of bird flu while another 38 year-old woman from West Jakarta has been infected by the virus. This puts the total death to 103 out of 126 contracted people, Health Ministry said here Monday. "All of their laboratory tests showed that all the women were positively infected by the lethal disease," said Lili Sriwahyuni Sulistyowati, head of information center of the ministry.
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Another bird flu patient has died in the Persahabatan Hospital in eastern Jakarta. The victim, who is only known as R was 32 years old and passed away last Thursday evening after receiving treatment in the hospital for one week. The patient eventually died because of multiple organ failure. Before the patient was brought to the hospital there alreay was an acute lung infections which didn't improve anymore when receiving treatment.
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The human death toll from bird flu in Indonesia has risen to 100, after two more people died over the weekend from the H5N1 strain of the disease, a Health Ministry official said Tuesday. Two Indonesians from the outskirts of Jakarta died on Sunday, said Joko Suyono of the Health Ministry's Bird Flu Centre.
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A 30-year-old man from Tangerang near Jakarta died of avian influenza on Thursday, putting the total fatalities to 98 out of 120 contracted people in the country, Indonesian health ministry said here. The man had been treated in a bird flu designed hospital of Persahabatan in east Jakarta since Jan. 18, an official of anti-bird-flu center of the ministry Suharda Ningrum said. All his laboratory tests was positive on Tuesday.
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Hundreds of fowl that belonged to the villagers of Kayuringin, in the district of Bekasi in western Java, were destructed earlier today after dozens of fowl were found to be infected with the H5N1 variant of the bird flu virus. The virus caused one person from the village to fall ill earlier. That person died late yesterday in the Persahabatan Hospital in nearby Jakarta.
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A 32-year-old woman has died of bird flu, the health ministry said in a statement Monday, bringing the toll to 95 in the nation worst hit by the H5N1 virus. "The patient died at home on January 10," the ministry's bird flu information centre said, adding that two laboratory tests had since confirmed that she was infected with the bird flu virus.
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An Indonesian woman died Tuesday from bird flu, raising the country's death toll from the disease to 94, according to media reports Wednesday. The woman from Cengkarang, on the western outskirts of Jakarta, tested positive for the H5N1 strain after being hospitalized for six days, said Joko Suyono, an official at the Indonesian Health Ministry's avian flu center.
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Six patients from Serang in the province of Banten which are suspected to be infected with the bird flu virus are brought to the isolation room of the Persahabatan Hospital in eastern Jakarta last night. The group consists of two women and four men. All the patients currently receive intensive treatment to investigate if they really have contracted bird flu.
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A 28-year-old mother has died of bird flu at a Jakarta hospital, bringing the total death toll from the disease to 92 in Indonesia, the local press said Tuesday. The woman, a mother of two in the Jakarta suburb of Tangerang, died during treatment at the Persahabatan Hospital early on Monday, as was reported by Kompas. Her relatives said she had suffered respiratory problems, high fever and severe pneumonia since last week.
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A man from Sumatra, western Indonesia, has died from bird flu, bringing the total death toll to 91 in Indonesia alone, told a top official from the Health Ministry on Saturday. The 31-year-old died yesterday after arriving at a government hospital in Pekanbaru, told Nyoman Kandun, the director general of communicable disease control at the Health Ministry.
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Bird flu has claimed another life in Indonesia. Et, a 30-year old woman from Cipete in the city of Tangerang, died last Saturday. The husband of the victim, Zaidi, said on Sunday that his wife received treatment in the Persahabatan Hospital in Jakarta, where she died at 12:30 (GMT+7). She was later buried at the general cemetery in Cipete.
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A 3-year old boy has been hospitalized in Jakarta with bird flu, according to the Health Ministry yesterday. Nyoman Kandun, director of disease control for Indonesia's health ministry, informed that two separate laboratory tests confirmed that the boy has the H5N1 bird flu virus. Reuters press agency reported that the boy only had minor symptoms however. This case is the 111th case of bird flu in Indonesia.
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The Minister of Health in Indonesia, Siti Fadilah Supari, has confirmed that the death of a 10-year-old girl in the province of Riau was caused by bird flu. This brings the total death toll to 89 in Indonesia alone. "Yes, the girl tested positive for bird flu," she told reporters at the State Palace in Jakarta.
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The 12-year-old boy that has been infected with bird flu died earlier on Saturday, bringing the total toll in the country to 88, according to the Ministry of Health. The boy died in a hospital in Jakarta at 07:30 AM, according to Nirwan, an employee at the Ministry of Health's bird flu information center. "Medical doctors at the hospital were meeting to discuss his case, since he showed great improvement in his health condition, with his white-blood cell count rising, but the boy suddenly died at 7:30 this morning," said Nirwan.
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A 12-year-old boy from Tangerang has tested positive for bird flu and is being treated in a hospital in Jakarta, said an official from the Ministry of Health on Thursday. Muhammad Nadirin from the bird flu center said it was not yet clear how the boy contracted the virus, but some chickens in the neighborhood had died earlier.
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The Ministry of Health says another person has died from bird flu, raising the total toll in Indonesia to 87. A 44-year-old woman has died in the general hospital in Pekanbaru, Central Sumatra. Both samples taken tested positive for the H5N1 virus. The bird flu information center from the ministry says that the woman, who was first treated in a clinic on October 1, was moved to a private hospital in Pekanbaru the next day before being sent to the state hospital for bird flu cases.
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A 21-year-old man who died on Friday in West Jakarta, was infected with bird flu, according to the Ministry of Health earlier on Monday. This confirmation put the total death toll of bird flu in Indonesia alone at 86, out of 107 cases in total. This information was released by Suharda Ningrum of the bird flu center of the ministry. "Two laboratory tests today showed that the man is positive of avian influenza," she told.
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A woman suspected of being infected with the bird flu virus has died in the West Javanese city of Bandung, according to a hospital source earlier today. Blood samples from the 30-year old woman have been send to Jakarta for further testing told a staff member at the Hasan Sadikin general hospital in Bandung. Two tests have to be positive before a victim is confirmed of having H5N1 bird flu.
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A 33-year old man living on the island of Sumatra has died of bird flu. His death brings the total number of fatalities in Indonesia alone to 85. The man has possibly obtained the virus when eating chicken from a local market.
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Indonesia on Monday rejected a study by researchers from the United States that concluded that the bird flu virus had spread from person to person during one outbreak in 2006. Indonesia said it was misleading.
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A 43-year-old woman which is suspected of being infected with the bird flu virus has died in Bali, which causes fears of a wider outbreak. Blood samples from the woman were sent to Jakarta for further testing. If this case is confirmed it is the third person on Bali to die from the virus this month alone. Radio Australia reports that the outbreak is also having an effect on the restaurant business and of course farmers which depend on raising poultry.
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Another bird flu suspect was found on the Indonesia ’s resort island of Bali on August 24. The suspect, identified as one-and-a-half-year-old infant Ni Putu Aprilia Dewi, is currently being treated at the Sanglah hospital in Denpasar, the Jakarta Post reported.
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A second woman died from bird flu on the Indonesian resort island of Bali, bringing the country's death toll from the H5N1 strain of the virus to 84, health officials said Wednesday. The 28-year-old Ayu Srinadi, working as poultry trader from Tabanan district, died on Tuesday afternoon at Bali's Sanglah Hospital after undergoing treatment for 36-hours. She had high fever and acute pneumonia, said Daswir Nurdin, an official at the Health Ministry's bird flu information centre.
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Two persons have been admitted to hospital on the Indonesian resort island of Bali over suspected bird flu symptoms, local press said Tuesday, adding fear to an outbreak after the death of a woman earlier this month. A 28-year-old woman who used to work as chicken trader is being treated at the Sanglah Hospital in the Bali capital of Denpasar with pneumonia and other symptoms typical to bird flu, reported leading news website Detikcom.
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A 17-year old girl from Jakarta has died of bird flu, which takes the country's total death toll from the virus to 83. The girl's death comes just a few days after a 29-year-old woman living on Bali died from the disease. The girl died two days ago after falling ill with high fevers last week.
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A woman has died of bird flu in Bali, the first human death from the virus on the resort island. An official from the Health Ministry told earlier today that a 29-year-old woman from West Bali died one day earlier in a hospital suffering from high fever.Her five-year-old daughter died recently after playing with chickens, but it was not clear if the girl died of bird flu.
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Indonesia has confirmed it will not cooperate with the World Health Organisation (WHO) by sharing live samples of the bird flu virus until it has guarantees that they will get access to affordable drugs to fight the disease. The WHO has accused Indonesia of putting the world at risk by failing to share the live samples. Indonesia currently has the highest number of deaths related to the disease in the world.
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The child who died of bird flu last week appears to have caught the virus from dead of sick chickens living in her area, a health ministry official told earlier today. "She had indirect contact with dead chickens near her school," told Joko Suyono, an official at the ministry's bird flu center.
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A boy has died of bird flu, bringing the total death toll in Indonesia to 81. Indonesia is currently the only country regularly logging human fatalities from the virus, according to a health official earlier today. The 6-year old died last Sunday in a hospital in Jakarta, told Rumizar Rusin from the bird flu information center under the Health Ministry.
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A three-year-old who earlier tested positive for bird flu has recovered from the potentially deadly illness after a quick treatment according to a doctor on Saturday. The girl, who was admitted to a regional hospital in Pekanbaru, on the island of Sumatra, had contact with dead chickens that also tested positive for bird flu.
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The vaccine to combat bird flu in humans could be ready as early as July according to Indonesia, adding that it was preparing to use it immediately despite calls from the WHO to build a stockpile first. Health Minister Siti Fadillah Supari said that the advice of the WHO was not realistic for Indonesia, which has the biggest number of bird flu related deaths.
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A man who slaughtered chickens and then ate them has died of bird flu according to a health official on Thursday. This case would bring the human death toll in Indonesia to 80. Suharda Ningrum, a representative from the bird flu center from the Health Ministry, said that the man died last Tuesday. The man was admitted to a hospital in Pekanbaru last Monday.
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Officials from Indonesia's avian flu commission said today that the H5N1 avian influenza virus may have mutated in a way that makes it more transmissible from birds to humans, but a World Health Organization (WHO) official said the WHO had seen no evidence of such a change, according to news services.
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A teenage girl has died of bird flu here, taking the death toll in Indonesia to 79, a health ministry official said. The 15-year-old died on Tuesday, four days after she was admitted to hospital on the island of Java, the official said.
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The Ministry of Health of Indonesia has announced a new case of human infection of H5N1 avian influenza. A 45-year-old male from Grobogan district, Central Java Province developed symptoms on 17 May, was hospitalized on 26 May and died in hospital on 28 May. Initial investigations into the source of his infection indicate exposure to dead poultry.
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Indonesia announced today that a 5-year-old girl died of H5N1 avian influenza. Joko Suyono of the Indonesian health ministry's avian flu center said the young girl died on May 17, according to a Xinhua news report today. She was taken to a doctor on May 8 and was hospitalized May 15 in Solo, Central Java, the report said.
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Indonesia's health minister announced today at the World Health Organization's (WHO's) annual meeting that the country has resumed sending H5N1 avian influenza virus samples to the WHO, appearing to end a 5-month standoff over developing countries' access to vaccines. "I am pleased to announce to all of you that Indonesia has resumed sending its H5N1 specimens to the WHO collaborating center in Tokyo," Siti Fadilah Supari said at the World Health Assembly in Geneva, according to a Reuters report.
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A women who tested positive in a preliminary test for bird fly has died yesterday, according to an official at the Health Ministry. It is required that the results of the first test are confirmed by a send one before any confirmation of bird flu can be given. This latest death can push the country's death toll to 76, if confirmed.
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Bird flu has again claimed a victim in Indonesia; a 29-year old woman from Pekanbaru in the Riau province, died from the virus on 3 May. She was brought to a hospital on 1 May suffering from fever and respiratory problems, but died only two days later. According to the Health Ministry, two laboratory tests have confirmed the presence of the H5N1 virus, but the source of the infection is still unknown.
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The 29-year-old male patient that was admitted to a hospital in Solo, Central Java, late last month has died of bird flu. His death brings the total number of human deaths to 74 - the highest in the world, as was announced by a health official Saturday. The man, Suramto, died Thursday after receiving treatment for almost a week, said I Nyoman Kandun, director general of the department of infectious diseases at the Health Ministry. "Two local tests for him came back positive."
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Bird flu has killed a 15-year-old girl from Jakarta today, bringing the death toll in the country to 73, an official said Friday. "The girl died Thursday," said a spokesman from the bird flu information center in Jakarta. "She has been confirmed positive for the virus by two labs." The girl was admitted to an intensive care unit. She was the 93rd confirmed case.
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A suspected bird flu patient, Suranto (29), from Sukoharjo district, died in the Dr. Moewardi Hospital in Solo early Thursday morning. He had been treated there for several days. Hospital representative Titik Lestari said that Suranto, a bird flu suspect at the moment, died around three in the morning. "To make sure that Suranto is bird flu positive, his blood sample has been sent to the laboratory in Jakarta but he died before we obtained the result of laboratory test," Titik said.
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Bird flu has claimed another life in Indonesia, bringing the total number of deaths to 72. The most recent victim was a 23-year-old woman from Jakarta. Her death meant that the total number of confirmed cases now stands at 92, according to a statement from the Indonesian Health Ministry.
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A doctor who was treating a 15-year-old boy who died from bird flu is now himself treated in an isolation room after developing symptoms of the disease, as was announced by hospital staff yesterday. The doctor had treated the boy from Indramayu in West Java in a hospital in Bandung. Th boy died of bird fly at 25 March.
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Indonesia has announced two more deaths from bird flu on Thursday. The Health Ministry said a 14-year-old and boy and 28-year-old woman had died, bringing tot total death toll in Indonesia alone to 71. The boy was from West Sumatra and died last Saturday, while the woman from Jakarta died on Wednesday. Indonesia announced three deaths just yesterday.
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Initial tests indicated that a 22-year-old female university student who died last Saturday and a teenage boy who died last Sunday were both infected with bird flu, according to a spokeswoman for the government's bird flu information center. Further test results were awaited at the moment. In addition, a 39-year-old man had tested positive in a preliminary test and was being treated in a hospital in Surabaya, East Java he died earier this morning. A hospital official with the Soetomo State Hospital said that the man's case had already be confirmed.
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Children rarely die from measles or other easy to prevent diseases in the West, but the developing world often has to do it without lifesaving drugs and vaccines. Will access to eventual bird flu remedies be any different? That's the question that Indonesia is asking while refusing to share it's H5N1 bird flu samples with the World Health Organization (WHO) . It will continue to do so until it gets a guarantee that it will obtain vaccines if a pandemic breaks out.
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A 20-year-old woman died of bird flu on Monday. Siti Nuraini was hospitalized for two weeks when she died yesterday in a hospital in East Jakarta. This was told by Dr. Tegus Sylvaranto according to website detik.com The total number of bird flu victims in Indonesia is now 86, with 66 deaths. The number of bird flu cases has increased recently after months of absence of new cases.
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A 32-year-old man who died last Thursday, was tested positive for bid flu, putting the total at 65 out of 86 people that have fall ill in Indonesia alone. This was released by the Health Ministry yesterday. The man from eastern Jakarta was sick since Sunday and was brought to hospital on the 13th. One day later he was transferred to the so-called bird flu hospital Persahabatan in eastern Jakarta, said Joko Suyono, an official for the anti-bird flu center of the ministry.
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A team of veterinarians says it has developed a disinfecting spray that is said to kill the bird flu virus on contact. The team from the Airlangga University in Surabaya said that the spray could be used to spray cages and areas where fowl have died from the virus, which can be lethal in humans. This to prevent it from spreading.
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Indonesia and the World Health Organization (WHO) agreed today that Indonesia will resume sharing its H5N1 avian influenza virus samples while the WHO will work to ensure that developing countries have access to pandemic vaccines based on viruses they supply.
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Indonesia has defended its decision to stop sharing samples of the deadly bird flu virus with the World Health Organisation after it signed an agreement with a US drug manufacturer. The government said it would resume cooperation with the WHO only if it stopped providing samples to other commercial vaccine makers.
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An Indonesian woman has died from the avian influenza virus, bringing the total number of human deaths from the deadly H5N1 strain of the virus in the country to 64, a health official said on Sunday. The 20-year-old female, who has been identified only with her initial as E, died in a local hospital in Garut regency in west Java on Saturday night after undergoing a two-day treatment, according to Nurdin, an official at the Health Ministry's bird-flu information centre.
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The U.S. embassy warned its citizens in Indonesia on Wednesday that the country's wild and stray cats may carry the deadly bird flu virus and should be avoided and that care needed to be taken with pet cats. Most known cases of humans getting the H5N1 virus have involved contact with chickens or other infected birds. But last month experts called for closer monitoring of other animals after Indonesian scientists found it in cats near poultry markets.
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Public health experts have warned that an exclusive H5N1 vaccine deal Indonesia has struck with a pharmaceutical company may jeopardise the world's access to a pandemic vaccine, if the country becomes the epicentre of a global outbreak. Indonesia signed a memorandum of understanding with US drug manufacturer Baxter Healthcare to develop a human bird flu vaccine.
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Indonesia signed a memorandum of understanding with a unit of U.S. company Baxter International Inc. on Wednesday to develop a human bird flu vaccine, as Jakarta came under fire for not sharing samples of the virus. Earlier reports of the deal had stirred controversy because it had been linked to Indonesia's decision not to share H5N1 bird flu virus samples with foreign laboratories.
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Indonesia, the country worst hit by the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus, has stopped sharing human genetic samples of the highly pathogenic illness with foreign laboratories, raising fears it could slow international efforts to prepare for a pandemic. Officials say Indonesia stopped providing samples internationally last month, hindering efforts to confirm whether the virus killing its citizens is H5N1 and limiting production of vaccines to help prevent its spread.
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The capital of Indonesia has been cleared of all domestic poultry in the government's efforts to manage bird flu that has claimed a total of 63 human deaths, almost a third of the world's total. Authorities conducted door-to-door checks to implement the prohibition of raising domestic poultry.
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Indonesia will declare bird flu a national disaster, giving the government access to special funds to combat the disease that has killed 63 people nationwide, the planning minister said Wednesday. "It has become an epidemic," Paskah Suzetta told reporters in the capital, where authorities were preparing for the compulsory slaughter of thousands of backyard chickens as part of high profile efforts to fight the H5N1 virus.
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Indonesia has called on the military to help fight bird flu, a day after a young girl became the country's sixth victim this month. Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono ordered the military chief to deploy soldiers to help fight the disease, Cabinet Secretary Sudi Silalahi told reporters. "He called on governors, regents, mayors to be more active in leading efforts to fight bird flu in affected areas," Silalahi said after ministers held talks with Yudhoyono.
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Avian influenza is now endemic in Indonesia because of past delays in dealing with H5N1 bird flu, with the virus now well established and a major concern in SouthEast Asia, says an Australian veterinary scientist. But Laurence Gleeson, a regional manager with the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and other UN officials, were positive over steps taken to control bird flu in SouthEast Asia when speaking to reporters today.
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Bird flu has killed a woman in Indonesia, the 62nd death from the virus in the country with the highest human fatality rate, a health ministry official said on Saturday. The 19-year-old woman from West Java died on Friday, Dr. Muhammad Nadirin at the ministry's bird flu centre, told Reuters. "She was sick since Jan. 11, got a high temperature and cough and then entered Garut hospital on Jan. 17," he said.
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In a bid to stem a surge in human deaths from the H5N1 virus (bird flu), the Indonesian government will slaughter hundreds of thousands of backyard chickens over the next week, Health Minister Siti Fadilah Supari said here Wednesday. This is a new and concrete measure taken by the Indonesian government in facing with a critical situation since several bird flu patents died recently. But the policy has met with different reaction and opposition from owners of fowls.
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Indonesia readied more hospitals to deal with a spike in bird flu cases while Japan confirmed its first outbreak of H5N1 in poultry in three years on Tuesday as the virus flared anew in Asia, mirroring past winters. Concern about the disease have rippled across the region, with an Indonesian hospital overwhelmed by human cases this week, and the virus spreading among flocks in Vietnam and flaring again in Thailand.
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With four deaths from bird flu in Indonesia since New Year's Day, the government announced that faster diagnostic kits would only be available in March. "We are expecting that this diagnostic kit will be able to detect symptoms in patients before they suffer heavy breathing," Indonesia's Health Minister Siti Fadilah Supari was quoted as saying by Detik.com on Sunday. "The government will also increase the training for health officers on diagnosing and handling bird flu cases," she added.
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Two more Indonesian women have died from bird flu, a health official said Saturday, pushing the toll this week to four in the latest cases to strike the country worst hit by the virus. One of the women died late Friday while the 22-year-old died early Saturday, said Nyoman Kandun, the Ministry of Health‘s director general of communicable disease control. Both had been treated in the same hospital in Jakarta, the capital.
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The number of people suspected of being infected with the bird flu virus increased Thursday as Jakarta's Friendship hospital admitted two patients suspected of carrying deadly strain. Authorities said the patients are the husband and child of a 37-year-old woman who had been positively identified as being infected with bird flu virus on January 9.
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A 37-year-old woman has tested positive for bird flu in Indonesia and is being treated in a hospital on the outskirts of the capital, a Health Ministry official said on Tuesday. The case comes after a 14-year-old boy tested positive for bird flu at the weekend, the country's first new infection in almost two months.
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A 14-year-old boy tested positive for bird flu in Indonesia, marking the country's first case in almost two months and its 75th overall, a Health Ministry official said. The boy is being treated at Persahabatan Hospital in Jakarta after showing flu-like symptoms on Jan. 1, Muhammad Nadirin, an official at the Health Ministry's avian flu information center, said in a telephone interview today.
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Avian Influenza has infected tens of thousands of fowls in Aceh province, which was devastated by tsunami in December 2004, an Indonesian Health Ministry official said here Thursday.
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Human bird flu deaths in Indonesia have slowed markedly over the last three months - a drop local officials attributed to a more aggressive fight. But The World Health Organization said it was too soon to draw conclusions. The WHO cautioned that the fall - a rare piece of good news in the country worst hit by the H5N1 virus - did not indicate a trend and refused to speculate on possible reasons for it.
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An Indonesian woman died of bird flu early Tuesday, raising the country's death toll to 57, a hospital official said. The 35-year-old woman died after being treated for almost three weeks in a hospital in the capital, Jakarta, said spokesman Sardikin Giriputro. Health officials were still investigating the source of infection. Health Ministry tests confirmed on Nov. 13 that the woman from the city of Tangerang, on the western outskirts of Jakarta, was H5N1 positive. The World Health Organization has not confirmed the death.
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The Indonesian government has vaccinated about 140 million chickens against bird flu, which account for only 10 percent of the total of 1.4 billion chickens across the country, an official said. The vaccination has to be optimized to prevent a bird flu epidemic in Indonesia, Antara news agency Friday quoted National Commission's expert panel member Amin Soebandrio as saying.
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The human death toll from bird flu in Indonesia rose to 56 after a 2-year-old boy who died Monday in a Jakarta hospital from the H5N1 virus, health officials said. In addition, the country also posted a new confirmed human bird flu case, with a 36-year-old woman who has been undergoing treatment for the virus at the same hospital since Friday, said Ningrun, an official at the Health Ministry's bird flu centre.
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Indonesia, which has the highest number of human bird flu infections and fatalities, was unlikely to be hit by a pandemic of the disease in the immediate future, an official has said. "We are still far from a pandemic," said Bayu Krisnamurthi, the chief executive of the Indonesian National Committee for Avian Influenza Control and Pandemic Influenza Preparedness (Komnas FBPI.)
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Indonesia, which has the world's highest number of bird flu deaths, intends to bar city residents from keeping chickens and other poultry in their backyards, ministers said on Friday. Indonesia has become a frontline in the battle against the virus that has killed 55 people in the country, where millions of chickens roam freely in urban residential areas.
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A 27-year-old woman who died last week has been confirmed as being infected with bird flu, bringing Indonesia's death toll from the virus to 55, a health ministry official said.
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Indonesia confirmed Monday a 67- year-old woman who had contracted avian influenza and hospitalized in West Java province died Sunday night. The death put the total fatality of H5N1 virus to 54 out of 71 cases in Indonesia, according to the anti-bird flu center of the Health Ministry. The official in charge of center told Xinhua that the woman had a history of contacts with fowl before she was rushed to the Hasan sadikin hospital in the province.
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An 11-year-old Indonesian boy has died of bird flu, marking the country's 53rd death from the virus, an official at the Health Ministry's bird flu centre said on Sunday. Ministry official Djoko told Reuters the boy from South Jakarta died on Saturday night in a Jakarta hospital. The boy "was positive for bird flu, so confirmed cases (in Indonesia) now are 71, 53 of whom died".
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An Indonesian man who had been suffering from bird flu for days died early on Thursday, a hospital official said, taking Indonesia's death toll from the disease to 52.
"He died because of breathing problems which he had suffered since he was admitted to the hospital," said Hadi Yusuf, who heads the bird flu ward at Hasan Sadikin hospital in Bandung, West Java's provincial capital.
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The H5N1 bird flu virus has infected pigs on the Indonesian resort island of Bali, a senior agriculture ministry official said on Monday. "There were two pigs that were infected by bird flu in Bali. These were old cases that happened last July," Musni Suatmodjo, agriculture ministry director of animal health, told Reuters.
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The bird flu virus that's killed one person a week in Indonesia this year hasn't mutated to become more contagious to people, the country's agriculture ministry said, citing an analysis of virus samples. Tests on 49 samples taken from birds on the islands of Sumatra, Java and Bali showed the H5N1 avian influenza virus has undergone no major changes, the ministry said in a statement today. The analysis was undertaken by a World Organization for Animal Health reference laboratory in Geelong, Australia.
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A 20-year-old Indonesian man who health officials thought had been part of a family cluster of bird flu cases died of the disease on Thursday, a hospital official said. The man's 25-year-old brother died on Sunday after displaying bird flu symptoms but there has been no positive confirmation he had the disease because no samples were taken for testing. A third sibling, a 15-year old girl, is being treated at Hasan Sadikin hospital. Tests for her have been negative.
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Indonesia's bird flu death toll climbed to 50 on Friday after laboratory tests showed an 11-year-old boy died of the disease, a senior health official said. The child died in a hospital in Tulungagung, East Java province, on Monday — hours after he was admitted and two days after developing symptoms of the disease, said Nyoman Kandun. He appeared to have had contact with infected poultry.
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