24 October 2005
The Ministry of Public Health
in Thailand has confirmed an additional
case of human infection with H5N1 avian
influenza. The patient, a 7-year-old boy
from Kanchanaburi Province, developed symptoms
on 16 October and was hospitalized on 19
October. He is recovering. He is the son
of a confirmed case who died on 19 October.
These are the first two confirmed
cases in Thailand in a year. Since the start
of the outbreaks in Asia, Thailand has confirmed
19 cases, of which 13 have been fatal.
Indonesia
The Ministry of Health in
Indonesia has confirmed two additional cases
of human infection with H5N1 avian influenza.
The first newly confirmed
case is a four-year-old boy from Sumatra
Island in Lampung Province. He developed
symptoms on 4 October, was hospitalized,
recovered fully, and has returned home.
This case is the nephew of
the 21-year-old man from Lampung, who was
reported on 10 October 2005. Although the
two cases are related and lived in the same
neighbourhood, human-to-human transmission
is considered unlikely.
The second newly confirmed
case was a 23-year-old man from Bogor, West
Java. He was hospitalized on 28 September
and died on 30 September.
Epidemiological investigations
uncovered exposure to infected poultry as
the likely source of infection in both cases.
To date, Indonesia has reported
7 human cases of H5N1 avian influenza. Four
of these cases were fatal.
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