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Indonesia Conducts Massive Bird Flu Drill
The largest bird flu drill ever held in Indonesia, the country worst hit by the virus, involved the simulated outbreak of a pandemic which experts say could rapidly spread across the globe killing millions of people.
"This is the biggest drill in Indonesia. The objective is to test the preparedness of bird flu officials to manage an outbreak in case it happens," health ministry disease control chief I Nyoman Kandun told reporters.
The three-day drill began at Tukaddaya village outside Jembrana, 80 kilometres (48 miles) west of Denpasar on the resort island of Bali, with a man presenting himself to a clinic with the symptoms of deadly avian influenza.
Health workers initially think he has been in contact with infected chickens -- until now the main way the virus has been caught by humans -- but the man explains that he has not been handling birds at all.
The virus is traced to another man in the village and health workers have to confront their worst fear -- the first outbreak of bird flu being transmitted from human to human.
The village is sealed off, birds and ducks are slaughtered and officials scramble to find and isolate other victims as they present themselves.
Villager I Wayan Nerken, 51, whose role in the drill was to report the sudden "death" of one of his chickens, said the exercise was "very useful."
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