Suspected bird flu patient dies

Fri, 03/28/2008 11:27 AM  |  The Archipelago

BANDUNG: A 15-year-old boy from Subang, West Java, suspected of suffering from bird flu died Wednesday evening just one hour after being admitted to Hasan Sadikin Hospital in Bandung to receive intensive medical treatment.

Hadi Jusuf, head of the hospital's bird flu mitigation team, said the condition of the patient, identified only as AY, was very poor upon arrival at the hospital at 4:30 p.m.

"He had breathing difficulties and was unconscious. Moreover he had acute lung wounds," Hadi explained Thursday.

AY had been treated at Cieereng Hospital four days earlier, his high body temperature leading doctors to believe he suffered from dengue fever.

A week earlier AY's younger brother died at the same hospital due, according to the hospital doctors, to dengue fever, Hadi said.

AY's blood samples had been sent to a laboratory at the Ministry of Health in Jakarta to ascertain whether AY was infected by the H5N1 virus or not, Hadi said. -- JP

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