HAT TIP Gert van der Hoek
Ministry of Health Confirms A Karawang Citizen Dies from Bird
Flu
Thursday, July 5, 2012
JAKARTA - : Directorate
General of Disease Control and Environmental Health (P2PL) Ministry of Health to
confirm the death of the girl residents Karawang district, West Java, KK (8) is
due to bird flu (H5N1).
Director General Tjandra Yoga Aditama P2PL
in Jakarta, Thursday ( 5/7), said the new cases of H5N1 have been confirmed by
the Center for Basic Biomedical and Health Technology, Balitbangkes, Ministry of
Health.
http://www.mediaindonesia.com/read/2012/07/05/331091/293/14/Kemenkes-Pastikan-Seorang-Warga-Karawang-Meninggal-akibat-Flu-Burung
HAT TIP Ronan Kelly
Indonesian Girl, 8, Dies of Bird Flu in Jakarta Hospital: Health
Ministry
July 05, 2012
An eight-year-old girl from Karawang, West
Java, died after catching the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus, the Health Ministry
said on Thursday.
The girl, identified as “K.K,” lived near the Karawang
market. She often walked past the market's live stock and bird pens on her way
to school.
On June 12, K.K. carried a clutch of freshly killed chickens
home from the market with her father, said Tjandra Yoga Aditama, director
general of disease control and environmental health at the Health Ministry.
She became ill six days later on a trip to Singapore. A doctor there
diagnosed the girl with laryngitis, Tjandra said.
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