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AVIAN INFLUENZA,
HUMAN (176): INDONESIA Indonesia: Human avian influenza death toll reaches 56 Indonesia
recorded 2 [more] bird flu cases on Monday [13 Nov 2006] with
one A 2-and-a-half-year-old boy, who died on Monday [13 Nov 2006] morning after 3 days in hospital, and a 35-year-old woman were confirmed by laboratory tests [in Indonesia to have contracted avian influenza], said an official of the Anti-bird flu Center of the Ministry. Both [victims had] been treated in Jakarta's designed bird flu hospital [Sulianti Suroso], the official said. "The results of their tests are positive for bird flu; the boy died at 6:00 this morning," the official told Xinhua. The boy, who was from Kerawang in West Java province, had a history of contact with fowl, but the [source of infection] of the woman, who was from Tanggerang, in the outskirts of Jakarta, was still not clear, said the official. Indonesia, which has been hit the hardest, has become one of the front lines in the fight against the H5N1 virus. Concern over the country's top position in terms of the number of victims of the virus has [placed] the bird flu [outbreak] at the top of the agenda for the forthcoming meeting between U.S. President George W. Bush and his Indonesian counterpart Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono in Bogor, a town near Jakarta, on 20 Nov 2006, Indonesian presidential spokesman Dino Pati Djalal said. The huge territory of Indonesia, [the extent of] back yard centered farming and the relatively sparse budget have hampered the authorities of Indonesia in fighting avian influenza. Welcome, Bienvenido to Finlay-Online!
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