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The Indonesian Ministry of Health has published details on a recent H5N1 fatality in Bengkulu, Bengkulu province on the island of Sumatra.
The victim is a 24-year-old female (?) who died on March 1st, who is described as an employee of the District Hospital Dr. M. Jonah.
The epidemiological investigation, however, appears centered on poultry deaths in his neighborhood as opposed to any workplace exposure.
The following is a Google translation from the MOH website (the gender of this patient has previously been reported to be female, so the gender given below may be a translation error)
Bird Flu Case Update
March 9, 2012 | 7:43 pm
Ministry of Health, through the Directorate General of Disease Control and Environmental Health announced a new case of H5N1 have been confirmed by the Center for Basic Biomedical and Health Technology, Agency for Healthcare Research.
Case on behalf of M (Male, 24 years old) Queen of district residents Samban, the city of Bengkulu, Bengkulu province, and the employee at the District Hospital Dr. M. Jonah. Symptoms of fever cases since February 23, 2012. He then admitted to hospitals for treatment and DR. M. Jonah the next day. Because of cough, shortness of breath, and accompanied by a decrease in consciousness, then the case was transferred to the intensive care unit (ICU). Finally, the case died on March 1, 2012 at 22:45 pm.
Epidemiological investigations have been carried into the homes of people and the environment by the Integrated Team Ministry of Health, Public Health Service and the local Animal Husbandry Department. Based on these investigations, obtained the possibility that the patient has risk factors for contact environments where there are sudden deaths of poultry in the neighborhood.
With the increase of these cases, the cumulative number of bird flu in Indonesia since 2005 until this news was broadcast on 187 cases with 155 deaths.
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