Bird flu or avian influenza is a disease originating in animals (zoonosis) due to the spread of the H5N1 virus. The virus is frequently mutated in various formats that can not be simulated using a lot of scientific approach.
Indonesia is a tropical country prone to the spread of this disease, as had happened in the countries of the world's middle latitudes.
However, the government through the Ministry of Health and Ministry of Agriculture and other relevant agencies have a mechanism to prevent and control bird flu by default according to international standards of WHO.
What are the steps? In general, if there are patients with suspected bird flu according to certain criteria, then the health worker would do three things. Speaking of that criterion, of which the last 24 hours someone has a fever or rash - either high or not - and is known to make physical contact with poultry.
Also if known birds in the vicinity of a person suspected of contracting it suddenly ill and died.
In terms of personnel, it is the first step officers of Animal Husbandry Department of Health and local businesses will go to the field or around the house suspected to examine the people who make contact or contact with suspected patients.
Officers will check whether the contact has symptoms of flu and if there is it will be checking the temperature and state of the clinic on a regular basis if necessary and given preventive medication if needed.
Health care workers also will examine the environment around the house to see the problems of environmental sanitation and the Animal Husbandry Department will inspect poultry, both clinical and laboratory that can be a rapid test, culture or PCR.
The second step is to treat both the symptoms of patients with suspected mild weight moreover, to the referral hospital.
A third step is to take samples from the patient's body tissue to be examined at the Laboratory Balitbangkes to ascertain whether the patient with suspected bird flu infected or not.
"If you will already have results and the results were indeed positive for bird flu, then the result will be posted on the website the Ministry of Health and reported to WHO as part of the IHR," said Tjandra.
Whereas if the results were negative, the patient admitted to hospital with suspected who had handled the situation will remain appropriate clinical medicine procedures / treatments available.
So, if there are people around us experience things like that then do not hesitate to contact or inform the authorities in their respective environments.
Editors: Ade Marboen
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