Jakarta : Government announces a H5N1 positive case during May to June 2010

Another excellent piece of info from Ida at Bird Flu Information Corner :

" Jakarta : Ministry of Health reported an additional bird flu (H5N1) positive during May to June 2010. Victim is a 34 years old female with initial TFA, a resident of Jakarta.

“Victim is stated positively contracting H5N1 by Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Research Center, Ministry of Health, on June 4th 2010,” announced General Director of Disease Control and Environmental Health (Dirjen Pengendalian Penyakit dan Penyehatan Lingkungan/P2PL), Ministry of Health, Tjandra Yoga Aditama in Jakarta, Thursday (1/7).

Victim started to feel sick on 25 May 2010 with signs fever, coughing, breathing difficulty, nausea and muscle pain. She came to a private clinic on 27 May, and then continued to get medical care to a private hospital in Tangerang on the next day.

“During hospitalization, she was worsening with severe pneumonia. On June 1 she was referred to Tangerang regional hospital and died within the same day,” said Tjandra.

Before the illness, victim was having hobby of growing ornament plants in her yard, which is said as one of risk factor of infection. She was also reported to have had visited her parents in-law in Tangerang city, a bird flu endemic area.

There is no influenza like illness symptom reported on victim’s contacts within household, neighborhood or health workers.

The case has added total cumulative of bird flu cases in Indonesia since 2005 to June 2010 to 166 cases with 137 deaths.

This case has been reported to WHO by its representative, Dirjen P2PL."