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Posted: January 18 2006 at 9:17pm |
New Family cluster.
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,17861528-38196,00.htmlBird flu victims' father shows signs
From: Agence France-Presse From correspondents in
AN Indonesian man whose two children died of suspected bird flu was in hospital suffering symptoms of the virus, a health ministry official said today. The 43-year-old man was rushed to the Hasan Sadikin hospital in the western Java town of "We will most likely try to move him for further treatment at the Sulianti Saroso hospital in The man's 13-year-old daughter died over the weekend and local tests have showed she was carrying the H5N1 strain of avian influenza, which has killed about 80 people since 2003, mostly in His three-year-old son died yesterday and he also had bird flu symptoms. Health officials were still awaiting ministry test results to see if he was infected. If both cases are confirmed by a World Health Organisation-affiliated laboratory in Hong Kong, the children would be the 13th and 14th bird flu fatalities in pair's sister, a 15-year-old girl, was earlier admitted to the same hospital as her father and is also being treated as a suspected case. Mr Wibisono has said that the family all had close contact with poultry at their home in Indramayu in Experts fear that contact between infected birds and humans may result in the virus mutating into a form that could be easily passed on by humans, sparking a pandemic with a potential toll of millions. UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan warned today that the world was not yet ready to combat such a crisis and called for "tremendous effort" in stepping up preparations. A two-day international donor's conference in |
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