Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Indonesia: Minister of Health: suspected #birdflu Tangerang negative #H5N1

January 24, 2012

Jakarta - Patients with suspected or suspected bird flu in Tangerang District Hospital R (18) for the time being declared negative for H5N1 virus or bird flu after laboratory tests performed twice for Polymirasea Chain Reaction (PCR).

'Twice the test , not H5N1, but only two times. So awaited further examination, "said Health Minister Endang Rahayu Sedyaningsih when met after the inauguration of the Head of the POM in the building of the Ministry of Health, Jakarta, on Tuesday. Panongan R which is a resident, Tangerang regency was rushed to hospital on Saturday (21 / 1) with fever and flu symptoms and contact with birds piarannya. Therefore, patients get immediate treatment for suspected bird flu in anticipation of adverse events, because the disease is spread by birds that had killed two people in January 2012.

In the meantime, Director General of Disease Control and Environmental Health (P2PL) Tjandra Yoga Aditama Ministry of Health said patients had been treated with governance for suspected bird flu and oseltamivir administered as a precaution. "If given early, then the possibility of recovery is greater," said Tjandra. He also denied that there have been viral immunity against drug (resistance) as a public concern. "It has been no report of resistance. But here the same virus is still sensitive to oseltamivir," he said.

Minister of Health also said it is always to improve the quality of research laboratories for the bird flu virus, to further improve the sensitivity to bird flu. "There are 42 laboratories (which could to test the bird flu virus) in Indonesia. We do a variety of improvements such as internal quality control, we send specimens but were not told what was wrong, we do this once or twice a year, "he explained. Also, stay alert Kemkes 100 hospitals throughout the country to receive bird flu patients. [Ant]

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