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    Posted: April 17 2006 at 2:45pm

Tuesday, April 18, 2006      
                                   
WHO yet to recognize Indonesia's 24th bird flu death


Posted: 18-Apr-2006 01:26 hrs

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has not yet recognized what Indonesia has described as its 24th bird flu fatality but discussions about the case were ongoing, a spokeswoman said.

The head of the Indonesian health ministry's bird flu command post said early this month that samples taken from an eight-year-old girl who died last July had returned positive results from a WHO-affiliated laboratory.
A WHO spokeswoman in Jakarta, Sari Setiogi, said however that the case "doesn't meet the WHO case definition" for the deadly H5N1 virus.
"We are having continuing discussions at WHO to decide on the final classification... We might confirm it one day or we might not confirm it," she said.

The spokeswoman said that the WHO-affiliated laboratory at the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta had run fresh tests using the latest technology on samples taken from the girl last year.

"But since it's still something relatively new to all of us... the WHO case definition has not yet been adjusted to it," she said.

"At the moment her case is one of a number of cases in countries that cannot be captured by current definitions."
Ilham Patu, spokesman for the national bird flu team, told AFP Monday that Indonesia considered the results showed the girl was the country's 24th victim.

Indonesia, the world's fourth most populous nation, has witnessed more bird flu deaths than any other country this year and has the second highest number of fatalities reported in the world since 2003, after Vietnam.The sprawling archipelago nation has become a bird flu "time-bomb" because of its failure to eradicate H5N1 from numerous areas, the head of the World Organisation for Animal Health warned last week. — AFP The World Health Organisation (WHO) has not yet recognized what Indonesia has described as its 24th bird flu fatality but discussions about the case were ongoing, a spokeswoman said.

The head of the Indonesian health ministry's bird flu command post said early this month that samples taken from an eight-year-old girl who died last July had returned positive results from a WHO-affiliated laboratory.
A WHO spokeswoman in Jakarta, Sari Setiogi, said however that the case "doesn't meet the WHO case definition" for the deadly H5N1 virus.
"We are having continuing discussions at WHO to decide on the final classification... We might confirm it one day or we might not confirm it," she said.

The spokeswoman said that the WHO-affiliated laboratory at the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta had run fresh tests using the latest technology on samples taken from the girl last year.
"But since it's still something relatively new to all of us... the WHO case definition has not yet been adjusted to it," she said.

"At the moment her case is one of a number of cases in countries that cannot be captured by current definitions."
Ilham Patu, spokesman for the national bird flu team, told AFP Monday that Indonesia considered the results showed the girl was the country's 24th victim.

http://www.todayonline.com/articles/113215.asp


    

Edited by Rick - April 17 2006 at 2:45pm
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Isn't there a "magic number" of deaths that has to be reached to bump up the Alert level?  I saw this old Alert Form in a .pdf file (on my adventures on the net), it said 500 people had to die with what would be suspected H2H before they'd go to the next Alert Level. 
They have  revised the Alert chart since that time. 
 
The WHO is not in a hurry to add more to their lists ... but ya'll  remember to wash those hands after preparing your H5 chicken dinner Dead
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