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JAKARTA - Indonesia struggled on Thursday to contain its first polio outbreak in a decade, diagnosing three more infants struck by the crippling virus in the province of West Java, bringing the total to five in a month. The babies, from four neighbouring villages, suffered from paralysis -- a symptom of the virus that mainly strikes children under the age of five and can cause irreversible paralysis, deformation and sometimes death.
"Based on the tests on paralysed infants in four villages, we have confirmed four new infants infected by the disease," Umar Fahmi, director-general of communicable diseases eradication at the Heath Ministry, told Reuters. "Two others are waiting for further results." The four positive cases are in addition to an 18-month-old infant in a village near the city of Sukabumi, about 100 km (62 miles) south of Jakarta, who was diagnosed with the virus last month in Indonesia's first reported polio case since 1995.
Indonesia, the world's largest archipelago with more than 17,000 islands, is the 16th previously polio-free country to be reinfected in the past two years, including 13 in Africa, according to the Geneva-based WHO. There were 1,267 cases of polio worldwide in 2004, up from 784 the previous year, according to the UN health agency, which says that it is short of funds to complete its immunisation campaign this year and continue it in 2006.
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34 new polio cases in Indonesia for total of 100
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The World Health Organization on Tuesday reported 34 new polio cases in Indonesia, bringing the country's known total to 100. One of the new cases was confirmed on Sumatra, which until last week was polio-free.
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Polio vaccination drive largely successful
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Indonesia's nationwide drive last week to vaccinate about 24 million young children against a spreading polio outbreak was largely successful though some parents continued to resist, health officials said Monday.
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