I was clearly out of the loop for much of today, but others were on the case. Via CIDRAP: News Scan for Oct 07, 2013: H5N1 death in Indonesia; Bomb attack on polio workers; Hand sanitizer benefits in schools; Resistance monitoring in India; Health disparities in Europe. Excerpt:
Indonesia's Ministry of Health has confirmed the country's second H5N1 case this year, in a 28-year-old man from Bekasi.
The man died from the disease, according to a machine-translated health ministry statement today on FluTrackers, the Web-based infectious disease message board. The health ministry statement is dated Oct 3.
The man, a truck driver, developed a fever, aches, and back pain on Sep 16 and received outpatient treatment on Sep 18 at a private hospital in Bekasi, which is on the outskirts of Jakarta. He was admitted to the hospital on Sep 20. He died at a different hospital on Sep 27 of suspected avian flu.
Tests by the Center for Biomedical and Healthcare Technology Association later confirmed H5N1 avian flu, the statement said. Indonesia has now had 194 H5N1 cases, including 162 deaths, since 2005, the Ministry of Health said.
