RSOE EDIS - Situation Update No. 1 : Indonesia - Biological Hazard

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Situation Update No. 1 Posted:2010-02-01, 09:41:17 [UTC] Ref.no.: BH-20100201-24757-IDN Situation Update No. 1 On 2010-02-02 at 03:58:14 [UTC] Event: Biological Hazard Location: Indonesia Central Java Purbalingga district Situation: Bird flu killed around 5,500 chickens in Purbalingga district, Central Java, during January 2010, a local official said. Some 5,000 dead chickens were found at Tumanggal village and 500 at Pasunggingan village, said Hartono, head of the Purbalingga animal husbandry office, on Monday. The local authorities have conducted measures such as insecticide spraying, rapid testing and vaccination to prevent the bird flu or H5N1 virus from spreading to wider areas. Officials recorded 20 cases of the illness in humans last year in Indonesia, 19 of them fatal, the Health Ministry said in a statement early last month. Please DO NOT reply to this message: replies may be treated as errors and result in your subscription being deleted. If you have trouble or other queries, send email to havaria@rsoe.hu RSOE EDIS is operated by the National Association of Radio-Distress Signalling and Infocommunications (RSOE), Budapest, Hungary. Because of the complexity of this system and its dependence on other systems, we cannot be responsible for delays or failures in forwarding or transmission. You're receiving this AlertMail because you subscribed for the service. To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now. Contact: havaria@rsoe.hu