At present, we have 800,000 tablets provided by donor countries such as Australia, Japan and Singapore. |
It's a testament of our seriousness in fighting bird flu. We do not want Indonesia to become the world's source of bird flu. |
On Sept. 6, the woman was hospitalized, the hospital staff took specimen and conducted some examination for the possible of bird flu, the result has not fully met to be said as positive, |
So far the situation is still under control, the number of deaths due to the AI virus is still below those in Vietnam and Thailand , |
The Health Ministry has prepared a 'National Influenza Pandemic Preparedness Plan'. This is an international requirement for any country affected by bird flu, |
The national extraordinary condition was declared so that the people can remain calm and not panicking because the government is prepared to handle this in a national way, |
The suspected person is now in a healthy condition. |
The vaccine will not create any side affects, |
This can be classified as an epidemic and most definitely there will be other [deaths] as long as we are unable to positively identify the sources. |
This goes to show the problem is not just about a lack of doctors or geographical location, ... It's also about ignorance. Some parents, even rich ones, don't want to bring their children to clinics to get immunized. |
Until now, three children are being treated in a hospital . . . two are suspected of having the symptoms of bird flu based on the lab tests. The other one is still under observation, |
We don't distinguish between the three, ... But how they got infected is still unknown. |
We initially found positive signs but we need further testing because we cannot say it is a positive case before two confirmations, |
We will carry out intensive rapid diagnosis of patients suspected of having the disease. |