Saturday, July 16, 2005

Fatal H5N1 Bird Flu Transmission in Suburban Jakarta Family

Here is anothe update on the Jakarta Family.

Recombinomics Commentary
July 15, 2005

The victims, a 38-year-old man and his two girls, ages nine and one, would be the country's first human fatalities linked to the virus. They lived in a suburb of Jakarta and all died in the last week and a half, Health Minister Siti Fadilah Supari said.

The deaths of three family members from a Jakarta suburb are cause for concern. The nine year old daughter was hospitalized last month, while her father and one year old sisted were hospitalized on July 7. The gap between admission dates strongly suggests that the index case infected two of her family. members


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