The government has not declared an outbreak of bird flu KLB

The government has not declared an outbreak of bird flu
Friday, January 11, 2013 20:31 pm | 434 Views





Jakarta (ANTARA News) - The government has declared a new case of bird flu clade 2.3.2 as an extraordinary occurrence (KLB) because the transmission is still considered to be controlled and not infect humans.

"The government has not declared an outbreak because it is relatively under control. Cases in Riau because ducks brought from Cirebon and is localized. In some areas it's also been done (localization)," said Agriculture Minister Suswono in a joint press conference with Minister for People's Welfare Agung, Minister Nafsiah Mboi Health and Minister of Communication and Information Technology Tifatul Sembiring on Friday.

Suswono also said that the government would begin producing a vaccine for bird flu new clade that attack poultry in February to come.

"The vaccine is actually a long time can still be used but there are repetitions, two to three times for effective results," said Suswono.

For the year 2013, the Ministry of Agriculture has also submitted a budget of Rp220 billion for the cost of poultry depopulation anticipate the spread of bird flu to the new clade.

Meanwhile, Health Minister Nafsiah Mboi said although there was a new outbreak of bird flu in poultry clade, but people do not need to worry in eating poultry.

"Duck meat is still edible if cooked until done virus will die," said Nafsiah.

Minister also said it has taken steps such as anticipated by issuing a circular letter to the Department of Health in all areas to be aware of the incidence of dead birds together in large numbers.

"Anticipation measures are taken, including if there is a mutation in humans," said Minister of Health.

Earlier, as many as 15 countries have reported to the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) about the bird flu cases "clade" newly discovered in birds, including Indonesia, Iran, Nepal, India, Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, including Hong Kong, Vietnam, Mongolia , Republic of Korea, Japan, Romania, Bulgaria, Laos, Indonesia and Russia.

According to the WHO report, in the period from February to September 2012, the virus was detected in wild birds (wild birds) in Hong Kong, India and Nepal, and on farms in Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Nepal and Vietnam.

Total found there were eight new cases of bird flu in humans clade three cases, namely Bangladesh and China-Hongkong five cases with the number of deaths of three of the five cases in China.

While in Indonesia, the Minister said there has been no case of bird flu was detected in the human clade. http://www.antaranews.com/berita/352689/pemerintah-belum-nyatakan-klb-flu-burung?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter