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Avian Influenza in SEAR
2 May 2012: The Ministry of Health of Indonesia has
notified WHO of a new case of human infection with avian influenza A(H5N1) virus: 2 year-old male from Riau Province. He
developed fever on 17 April 2012 and was hospitalized on 21 April 2012
but he died on 27 April 2012.
Including this case, a total of six cases of human infection
with H5N1 have been reported in Indonesia in 2012. All six have died.
Bangladesh is the other SEAR country to have reported cases of
human infection with avian influenza in 2012: three such cases have been
reported to date, identified as part of the live bird market surveillance,
and confirmed by real-time PCR techniques at the Institute of
Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR) and the International
Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Control (ICDDR),
Bangladesh.
There are now 221 reported cases of human infection with the
avian influenza (H5N1) virus, and 174 deaths, in the WHO South-East Asia
Region since the first global case was reported in 2003. More than a
third of all such cases globally have been reported from this Region. Of
the 189 cases confirmed to date in Indonesia, 157 have been fatal. In
Bangladesh, six such confirmed cases have been reported, none of them
fatal. Thailand had reported 25 cases with 17 deaths between December
2003-2006. In late 2007, Myan.
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