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Issues: `How do we face the H1N1 pandemic'
In late April, the WHO announced the emergence of a novel influenza A virus
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In late April, the WHO announced the emergence of a novel influenza A virus. This particular H1N1 strain had not previously circulated in humans. The virus spreads easily between humans and, in turn, from one country to another.
As of June 12, 2009, 74 countries have officially reported nearly 30,000 cases of influenza A (H1N1), including 145 deaths.
What is the situation in Indonesia? To date, the vast majority of cases have been detected and investigated in comparatively well-off countries. Around 85 percent of the burden of chronic diseases is concentrated in low-and middle-income countries like Indonesia.
Although the pandemic appears to be moderately severe in comparison to well-off countries, it is prudent to anticipate a bleaker picture, as the virus spreads to areas with limited resources, poor health care and a high prevalence of underlying medical problems.
Your comments:
Indonesian Health Minister Siti Fadilah Supari banned case-by-case reporting of H5N1 bird flu.
Why? So are we to believe that only one foreigner and one Indonesian pilot (who have both visited other countries) have been infected and are Indonesia's only two official cases of H1N1?
None of the thousands of returning Indonesians, who work overseas in hospitals, public places, as maids and as sex workers, have contracted H1N1? Just two people, who cannot relocate while in hospital, have been infected?
Spare one other thought.
All that money spent on body temperature scanners and alert systems at Indonesian airports failed to spot either of these two infected people.
Phentermine
Indonesia is still planning a strategy to tackle the issue. This is the fourth largest country in the world. Everything takes time to plan, give them time, please.
Ly
Why wait until after the horse has left before you close the barn door?
Exactly who must die before you shut down the factory farms? Your child, your mother, yourself or some innocent stranger?
K. Parce
Total over the world: 97 countries: 54662 confirmed cases, 258 deaths.
In countries around Indonesia: thousands of confirmed cases found in Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, the Philippines, Papua New Guinea and Australia.
Indonesia: Only three unconfirmed and two confirmed cases since the beginning of May?
Hard to believe.
Ennovy
