Heil Cяew
Jun 20 2008, 05:42 AM
GENEVA (Reuters) - Two women have died in recent weeks of bird flu infection in Indonesia, bringing the hard-hit country's death toll from the disease to 110, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday.
The cases appear to be the first since Indonesian Health Minister Siti Fadillah Supari said two weeks ago that Jakarta had changed its policy on reporting human cases, and would only announce the death toll every six months.
The WHO, in a statement reporting information from the Indonesian health ministry, said that a 16-year-old girl from South Jakarta died on May 14 and a 34-year-old woman from Banten province died on June 3.
(reporting by Stephanie Nebehay; editing by Keith Weir)
camz
Jun 20 2008, 05:46 AM
wow... 2 more deaths...
do you think there is going to be another big outbreak?
Heil Cяew
Jun 20 2008, 08:47 AM
I'm not really sure, since our knowledge about this disease is really rare.
camz
Jun 21 2008, 11:38 PM
yea thats true.... even the vaccinations are still not 100% fail safe....
EmFeld
Jun 22 2008, 08:34 PM
I'm still wondering why most of the victims come from our country?
regards
-EmFeld-
Heil Cяew
Jun 23 2008, 04:42 AM
To be frank, Indonesian sanitation system is not really good.
You must know in a high dense population city like Jakarta which a lot of house that have septic tank distance lower than 10 meters.
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