21 and 22nd bird flu died confirmed in Indonesia

INDONESIA - Indonesian authorities announced on Friday that two children, a boy and a girl, three-year-old respectively and of 12 years succumbed to the virus H5N1 of the bird flu, what hits carrying in 22 the number of lethal cases taken a census in Indonesia. For the time being the WHO confirmed only one of both cases. A child old of three years succumbed on February 28th of this year to the virus of the bird flu in the centre of the Indonesian island of Popular dance, according to the WHO. It is about the 21th victim of the bird flu in Indonesia. The child died in the city of Semarang, specified the worldwide Organization of the health (WHO), naming the results of analyses accomplished by the UN. The child would have been in contact with contaminated chickens, according to Hariadi Wibisono, a representative for the Ministry of Health.

21 and 22nd bird flu died confirmed in Indonesia

According to the WHO, the bird flu is responsible for 21 deceases in Indonesia but the virus H5N1 has « probably been at the origin of more deceases considering the deficient collection of the data of public health within the 6.000 islands lived by the archipelago. » Certain watchers, at the sight of insufficiency of veterinary structures Indonesian, doubt the effectiveness of governmental action to counter the virus H5N1 of the bird flu. And it even if the most affected six provinces threw campaigns of control of fowl to try to check the spread of illness. Epizootic spread on the majority of the provinces of the archipelago, of which the capital Jakarta which is more than 20 million inhabitants.

According to the worldwide Organization of the health (WHO), one of 176 human cases of bird flu, which lethal 97, took a census since the reappearance of illness in Asia in 2003. Indonesia is the most affected country since the beginning of the year with 10 deceases officially attributed by the WHO to the virus H5N1 of the bird flu, in front of China where they enumerate 5 deaths of the bird flu.

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