[SymphonicHealth] Avian Flu: Is the Government Ready for an Epidemic?

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Mon 19 Sep 2005

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Source: Reuters AlertNet Foundation, Mon 19 Sep 2005

<http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/JAK5930.htm>

 

Indonesia: 2 children hospitalized as suspected avian

influenza cases

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2 children have been admitted to hospital in Indonesia

with suspected avian influenza, and a zoo in Jakarta

has been closed after tests showed some exotic birds

had the virus, the health minister said on Mon 19 Sep

2005.

 

The highly pathogenic H5N1 strain of the virus has

killed 4 Indonesians,including one woman who died in

Jakarta a week ago. [The WHO recognizes only 2 of

these 4 cases as unequivocally confirmed avian

influenza

cases. - Mod.CP]. The virus has killed 64 [58

according to WHO as of 16 Sep 2005

-

Mod.CP] people in 4 Asian countries since late 2003

and has also spread to Russia and Europe [that is,

European Russia - Mod.CP].

 

" Until now, 3 children are being treated in a hospital

.... 2 are suspected of having the symptoms of bird flu

based on the lab tests. The other one is still under

observation, " minister Siti Fadilah Sapari told the

local El Shinta radio. Indonesia sends blood tests

from all suspected bird flu cases to Hong Kong for

confirmation.

 

Sapari said officials had also found traces of bird

flu in a number of exotic birds at Jakarta's Ragunan

zoo, which lies in the south of the teeming capital.

" For the time being, the (Jakarta) regional office has

 

decided to close down Ragunan for 21 days, " Sapari

said. The Jakarta Post newspaper quoted Agriculture

Minister Anton Apriantono as saying that

19 birds in the zoo had the virus. Over the weekend

[17-18 Sep 2005], tens of thousands of people visited

the zoo, which is popular with low-income

Indonesians. The government would kill those birds at

the zoo which had tested positive for the virus,

Sapari said.

 

Health officials last week [3rd week September 2005]

said that bird flu had killed a 37 year old woman who

lived near a chicken farm in south Jakarta

and that another person who had close contact with her

was also suspected of having the virus.

 

The World Health Organization said last week [3rd week

September 2005] that bird flu was moving toward

becoming transmissible by humans and that the

international community had no time to waste to

prevent a pandemic.

 

Most of the people killed in Asia since 2003 caught

the virus from infected birds.

Health experts say the greatest worry is that H5N1

could mutate and become transmissible between people.

Besides Indonesia, bird flu has killed 44

people in Viet Nam, 12 people in Thailand and 4 in

Cambodia.

 

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[Recent reports are ambiguous, but there seem to be 2

children in the hospital with provisional confirmation

of avian influenza virus infection and 2 other

suspected but unconfirmed cases: a child and a

neighbor of the most recently deceased confirmed case

of avian influenza virus infection.

 

There is a continuing disparity between the number of

human cases of avian influenza cited by the Indonesia

authorities and the number identified by WHO as

laboratory confirmed cases. As of Fri 16 Sep 2005, the

 

WHO-confirmed figures for laboratory confirmed human

cases of avian influenza in East Asia since 26 Dec

2003 are the following: Cambodia 4 cases and 4

deaths, Indonesia 2 cases and 2 deaths, Thailand 17

cases and 12 deaths, Viet Nam 90 cases and 40 deaths;

giving overall totals for the whole area of 113

cases and 58 deaths.

 

<http://www.who.int/csr/disease/avian_influenza/country/cases_table_20

 

05_09_16/en/index.html>. - Mod.CP]

 

[Elsevier reference: Frech SA, Kenney RT, Spyr CA,

Lazar H, Viret J-F,

Herzog C, et al. Improved immune responses to

influenza vaccination in the elderly using an

immunostimulant patch. Vaccine 2005; 23(7): 946-50

<tinyurl.com/8me31>]

 

[see also:

Avian influenza - Asia (27): Indonesia, zoo birds

 

20050918.2760

Avian influenza, human: LPAI susceptibility

20050918.2759

Avian influenza, human - East Asia (126): Indonesia

20050918.2758

Avian influenza, human - East Asia (125): Indonesia,

conf.

20050916.2736]

 

.........................cp/msp/sh

 

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--- Yochanan <expresit wrote:

 

> Thanks for the good information, especially the

> phrase " freezing the

> meat will not kill the virus " . I'm interested in

> developing a

> household appliance that will sanitize all purchased

> food in seconds.

> You might have guessed it - it's an ozone machine. I

> take the tubing

> from the ozone machine and feed it into the little

> holes in the top of

> a large, stainless steel steamer. In about 10

> seconds, the

> concentration of O3 is enough to kill anything, at

> least on the food

> surface. Now you know how to build your own.

> Purchase the ozone

> machine for less than $50 from

> www.ozone-purifiers.com. I recommend

> the model OZX-300U - I have three of them.

>

> SymphonicHealth , " CB "

> <soundtree@a...> wrote:

> > But, if influenza shows up on a poultry farm,

> freezing the meat will

> not kill the virus. Here is a food safety bulletin

> specifically

> addressing influenza virus from food sources.

> >

> >

>

http://www.who.int/foodsafety/fs_management/No_02_Avianinfluenza_Dec04_

> en.pdf

> >

> > Best wishes,

> > Char

> >

> > If one eats chicken one might be well advised to

> keep

> > the freezer full. lol.

> >

> >

> > [Non-text portions of this message have been

> removed]

>

>

>

>

 

 

 

Best regards,

Carol

 

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