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beskeptigal
SFN Die Hard
USA
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 Posted - 05/25/2006 : 19:29:23
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It only makes sense if the doctors fail to save your 5 relatives that you'd try the local witch doctor instead. It didn't help either though. But it is an interesting twist in the Indonesian current events.
Inf. Disease Updatequote:
The man helped care for his 10-year-old son at the Adam Malik Hospital in Medan up until the boy's death on 13 May, the WHO said. After returning to his home in Kubu Sembelang 2 days later, the man began coughing. He was examined 3 days later by local health-care workers, who observed avian flu-like symptoms. The WHO's Grein recommended on 18 May that he be isolated and treated in the hospital with the Roche Holding AG antiviral drug, Tamiflu. Instead the man fled local health authorities and sought care from a witch doctor, as I Nyoman Kandun, Director general of disease control with the Indonesian Health Ministry, told reporters in Jakarta on 22 May. Disease trackers located the sick man late on 21 May in a nearby village. Blood samples and swabs of his nose and throat for viral particles were taken that day and flown to a laboratory in Jakarta. He died the following day after tests confirmed he had H5N1, the WHO said on 23 May.
The sick man's actions and the local reaction to the deaths have health officials worried about how to contain outbreaks should the virus become contagious among people. Some residents of Kubu Sembelang said they resented the rapid assessment by some government officials that there was avian flu in the village. "The Minister of Health said that when the family got into the hospital they must be infected with bird flu," Veronita, a food vendor said in an interview on May 17. "The results of the tests hadn't even been reported. Later the Minister of health changed her words and said they `probably' have bird flu."
To help instill confidence in the community, "The district leader himself cut off the head of a chicken and had it cooked to prove that the poultry here are safe to eat," Veronita said. Dozens of poultry farmers and sellers from the deceased man's district slaughtered chickens and drank the blood in Medan on 22 May in a demonstration of their frustration at being branded by authorities as having been infected with avian flu. Footage of the protests was broadcast on Trans TV television.
But the blood drinking to prove your chickens are safe, that's not so good.
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Edited by - beskeptigal on 05/25/2006 19:30:31
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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Posted - 05/25/2006 : 21:18:53 [Permalink]
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Be professionally opined: quote:
But the blood drinking to prove your chickens are safe, that's not so good.
No, not without a properly designed experiment, including a control group.
This does all go toward forecasting the chaos and confusion that will doubtless make the inevitable human-to-human H5N1 plague impossible for pulic officials to control. Just imagine those sorts of events, then multiply that by millions.
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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beskeptigal
SFN Die Hard
USA
3834 Posts |
Posted - 05/27/2006 : 23:09:28 [Permalink]
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| And the quake with overloaded hospitals right in the thick of it is not going to help either. |
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