login
Become a member
Quick Registration
Full Registration Benefits -
Free Homepages for Doctors
Free Homepages for Hospitals
Free Homepages for Medical Conference
Free Homepages for NGO's
Personal Health Record Creation
Access to all Medical Slides
Access to all Jobs & Products Sale
Bird Flu Claims One More Life in Indonesia
Director General of Contagious Diseases Nyoman Kandun confirmed that the man had died in hospital in the Jakarta satellite city of Tangerang.
If this recent bird flu death and another death reported last month are confirmed by the World Health Organization (WHO), the man would be listed as Indonesia's 137th H5N1 case and its 112th death.
Health Minister Siti Fadilah Supari earlier in 2007 closed a 24-hour information center on bird flu outbreaks and stopped providing regular updates of the death toll, saying it was unnecessary.
Experts fear that the virus, which is usually spread directly from a bird to a human being, could mutate into a form easily transmissible between people, thus sparking a deadly global pandemic.
At present, the WHO's world H5N1 count stands at 385 positive human cases and 245 deaths.
Source-Medindia
THK/M
|
|
 Comment & Contribute
|
- Health News Index
- News Quick Links
 | News Central | | Health Watch | |
| Latest Health News | | Health In Focus | |
| News Category (500+) | | Breaking Health News | |
| Popular News | | Celebrating Life | |
| Health News and Press Release | | Medindia - Exclusive | |
| News Photo Gallery | | India Special | |
| News Video Gallery | | Lifestyle and Wellness | |
| News From Other Resources | |||
 |
Flu
Complete Medindia Resources
|
| News Categories: |
| » | Revision in Quality Standards for Heparin |
| » | Acne Drug Users At High Risk of Developing Eye Infections |
| » | Patients Who Take Antidepressants When in ICU More Likely to Die |
| » | New Tablet Coating Product by Ideal Cures, In Geneva |
| » | Prednisolone Benefits Patients With Bell's Palsy |
| More Drug News | |
|
Bird Flu Related News |
||||||||
| » | Vietnam Struggling To Combat New Cases Of Bird Flu | » | Mutant Bird Flu Studies are Freed for Publication | |||||
| » | Vietnam Approves $23 Million to Tackle Bird Flu | » | Chickens Culled in Nepal Farm | |||||
| » | What Causes Lung Injury in Severe Flu? | » | New Flu Virus Identified in Fruit Bats | |||||
| » | Bird Flu Alert For Bihar | » | Bird Flu More Common, Less Lethal Than Thought: Study | |||||
| Read More >> | ||||||||
