Make Rainy Season Avian Influenza Infected Poultry Lots
Jakarta, recently bird flu cases in the community began to emerge again. This is possible because during the rainy season, the infection rate of poultry against H1N1 or bird flu increases.
"Looking at the data, the incidence of bird flu has gone down. But in the rainy season like this, the infection rate of poultry against H1N1 was increasing," said Secretary General of Ministry of Health Ratna Rosita, the sidelines of the launch of the EMAS Program in the building of Ministry of Health, Jakarta, Monday (06/02/2012).
Ratna said the important thing is that people do have a grasp-grasp and often poultry, must be diligent, industrious tertama washing hands after holding it. If you hold the bird up and then suddenly it's a good poultry duck, chicken or pigeon died then immediately report to the local animal husbandry department.
"And people tell your doctor immediately to a health clinic in the vicinity if there are dead birds quickly so that we give Tamiflu to patients, these patients sometimes do not know," said Ratna.
Rachael recommends frequent hand washing, each out what should wash your hands, because by washing hands can prevent many diseases. Then create a clean environment, while hospitals are currently designated as a ready reference.
Prepare 100 Hospital to Treat Bird Flu
Ministry of Health said that for the handling of bird flu can not be done alone because of the infection in cattle, since it is performed once every 2 days coordination meeting with the farm service.
"We see where the pockets of poultry infected with H1N1, we set up a hospital there. Ministry of Health has prepared 100 hospitals bird flu that comes with trained personnel, equipment and space insulation," he said.
Additionally Indonesia has recently also received assistance from WHO to renovate 10 bird flu isolation room with the high standards one of which is in RSU Tangerang.
"Until now we do not categorize them as KLB (Extraordinary Events), but we still handle it according to the standard," said Ratna.
Symptoms of bird flu are similar to flu symptoms in general, fever, cough and cold. But the difference between the patients with no history of contact with poultry around.
Other symptoms are high fever (over 38 degrees Celsius), sore throat sudden, coughing, issued a runny nose, muscle aches, headache, weakness sudden onset of pneumonia (pneumonia).
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