Avian influenza, Indonesia - Update

15 March 2006 Volume 32 Number 06

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On 13 February 2006, the Ministry of Health in Indonesia confirmed two new cases of human infection with the H5N1 avian influenza virus. Both cases were fatal.

The first case, a 22-year-old woman, developed symptoms on 25 January and died on 10 February. Her neighbours kept chickens. Samples from these chickens and from pet birds in a market near the woman’s home are being tested by Indonesia’s animal health authorities.

The second case, a 27-year-old woman, developed symptoms on 31 January and died on 10 February. Deaths of chickens in her neighbourhood were reported 4 days before symptom onset.

The two women resided in different sub-districts of West Java Province.

These newly confirmed cases bring the total of cases in Indonesia to 25, of which 18 have been fatal.

Source: WHO Weekly Epidemiological Record, Vol. 81, No. 7, 2006.

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