Indonesia Concerns With High Mortality Rate in Bird Flu Cases
Posted on: Wednesday, 22 February 2006, 09:00 CST
Indonesia concerns with high mortality rate in bird flu cases
JAKARTA, Feb. 21 (Xinhua) -- The Indonesian government expressed worry Tuesday that mortality rate in bird flu cases has reached 70.7 percent, the highest among other countries where bird flu is detected.
In her report to the House of Representatives, Minister of Health Siti Fadillah Supari said Indonesia has 27 patients tested positive of bird flu and 19 of them have died.
As an addition, local hospitals have received 10 patients allegedly developing bird flu symptoms and four of the patients also have died.
Most of the fatalities occurred because the patients were hospitalized when they were already in critical condition.
"Most of them reached hospitals six or seven days after developing the disease," she told the House commission three in charge of health issues.
The globally accepted bid flu medicine, the Tamiflu, is effective if given to patients between the first and the third day after they developed the avian influenza virus, she said.
Source: Xinhua News Agency - CEIS
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