Via Bird Flu Information Corner, a translated report from Padang Today: Padang, West Sumatera ::: Duck farmer suspected to contract bird flu.
A resident of Tanjuang Durian, Nagari Baru Kecamatan Bayang Kabupaten Pesisir Selatan, Dasrizal (37), suspected to contract bird flu virus and admitted to M Djamil hospital.
Patient is a duck farmer, and raising hundreds of ducks. He is reported to have found almost of all his ducks suddenly died. Subsequent to the finding, he buried the dead ducks. He developed high fever at noon of the same day, and his family gave him antipyretic drug, a kind of paracetamol.
Dafrizal’s fever was getting higher in the afternoon and his family brought him to Pasa Baru public health center in the evening. Public health center was then referred Dafrizal to M Zein Painan hospital, where he was diagnosed as bird flu suspect.
Patient was transferred to M Djamil hospital to receive better treatment as bird flu suspect patient.
