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Victims' neighboorhood H5N1-free
The city's husbandry, fishery and maritime agency said Friday it did not find the H5N1 virus in any fowls found in the neighborhood of the latest suspected bird flu victims
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The city's husbandry, fishery and maritime agency said Friday it did not find the H5N1 virus in any fowls found in the neighborhood of the latest suspected bird flu victims.
Agency head Edy Setiarto said samples taken from poultry in the Gandaria Utara, South Jakarta, showed negative results.
"We took the samples Thursday and had them examined in our lab in Ragunan, South Jakarta, after scanning an area in the subdistrict with a radius of 100 meters," he said.
"We found out later that day the tests were negative," he said.
The agency also culled backyard poultry in the area during the inspection, he said.
"We have finished culling poultry on the subdistrict level," said Edy.
"The Jakarta husbandry, fishery and maritime agency will continue culling poultry in the whole Kebayoran Baru district."
The procedure, he said, would be finished by the end of this month.
Edy said the agency is trying to determine where the virus might have come from.
Jakarta Health Agency head Wibowo Sukijat said his agency was testing blood samples taken from people who had contact with the suspects before they died.
"We don't know when the tests will be finished," he said at City Hall.
Sixteen-year-old Istiqomah died Wednesday after being treated at Persahabatan Hospital, East Jakarta, for having respiratory problems, a cough and a fever.
Her nails on both her hands and feet had turned blue.
Doctors confirmed Istiqomah died of bird flu, Koran Tempo reported Friday.
On May 4, Istiqomah's brother Ahmad Rizki, 15, died at Prikasih Hospital in Pondok Labu, South Jakarta, after showing similar symptoms.
Doctors at the hospital, however, said Ahmad was suffering from typhoid.
Wibowo said blood samples from Ahmad showed he was not infected by the bird flu virus and thus confirmed the doctors' claim.
A family member of the victims, Alamsyah, 24, is now being treated at Persahabatan Hospital with bird flu-like symptoms.
The country has seen 135 human cases of H5N1 infection and a death toll of 110.
The latest confirmed case of death from bird flu was in Sumedang, West Java, on Thursday.
West Java, Banten and Jakarta have been the most hard-hit by the infection.
