Indonesia declares “extraordinary” situation over bird flu

[tsk]

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Indonesia declares “extraordinary” situation over bird flu
(AFP)

19 September 2005



JAKARTA - Indonesia on Monday declared the country is facing an “extraordinary” health situation after bird flu left a fourth person dead, three children with suspected infections and the Jakarta zoo shut down.


Health Minister Siti Fadilah Supari said she declared the ”extraordinary incident” because the number of cases has increased.

The classification, which has been applied previously for outbreaks of dengue fever, means authorities will devote special attention to the problem.

Supari, quoted by the state Antara news agency, said that by invoking the “extraordinary incident” status there would be increased effort in handling bird flu.

“We hope we would be more aggressive in the face of the bird flu case and the budget for its handling would be more focused,” the minister added.

The government has already allocated 158 billion rupiah (15.6 million dollars) to battle bird flu but Supari said more funds would be needed.

The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday it was trying to find out what happened at the zoo and could not yet comment.

tsk, tsk...

 

[Bubba Zanetti]

What happened to CanadaSue? Did she change her name? I expect to see her informed opinion chime in on these threads....

 

[Taz]

Canada Sue became upset with TB2K and more of less left this board. She can be found at ww.curevents.com/vb/forumdisplay.php?s=&daysprune=30&f=5 Look under the Flu Clinic. Tons of info there.

Taz

 

[Bubba Zanetti]

Canada Sue became upset with TB2K and more of less left this board.

oh.

 

[Claudia]

I think you might be quite surprised at the difference in the way H5N1 is being spoken of here vs. where Sue posts - and a lot of us are there trying to get a handle on just what is happening in places like China and Indonesia.
There are many people who are quite fearful that H5N1 may go pandemic during the coming flu season, and there are many things that everyone should be doing to prepare just in case this does come to pass. More and more it appears as though human2human transmission may be now taking place at an accelerated level, and Indonesia may well prove to the the break out point. This is a very serious subject that has not been paid much attention to here, which I still fail to understand the reasoning for. It is a very real danger, which may be waiting 'round the next corner, and you people would rather play with conspiracy theories and play that ever lasting blame game when it comes to government - if H5N1 goes pandemic, many things won't seem nearly as important as you may think they are today, including all this neo-con garbage and which religion is the right religion, and on and on and on. I guess a lot of people feel more comfortable thinking about such things than about a problem as real as H5N1, which could quite literally decimate the population of the planet and knock our level of technology back several hundred years.

To say that Sue got upset and left is about as simplistic an explanation as I can imagine. Other information may be found at www.recombinomics.com.

 

[Kimber]

"What happened to CanadaSue? Did she change her name? I expect to see her informed opinion chime in on these threads...."

Short answer, is that she's around elsewhere. But, regarding bird flu and C. Sue, you may want to check out:

Sat., August 27, 2005: Playlists: M3U | RAM (Individual MP3: Click Here)
Guest: Sue Smith - Canadian Registered Nurse, specialized in infectious disease impacts and management (www.ArkInstitute.com, 800-255-1912 and www.CurEvents.com [using the handle "Canada Sue"])
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Sat., August 20, 2005: Playlists: M3U | RAM (Individual MP3: Click Here)
Guest: Sue Smith - Canadian Registered Nurse, specialized in infectious disease impacts and management (www.ArkInstitute.com, 800-255-1912 and www.CurEvents.com [using the handle "Canada Sue"])​

http://mp3.rbnlive.com/Geri05.html

Edited to add: No, I have not yet listened to them. I may tonight. I found them while rummaging yesterday.