Sulawesi village on lockdown after 2 families reported ill from suspected bird flu
Scott McPherson
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The news coming out of Indonesia is interesting. It appears that members of two South Sulawesi families are infected with suspected H5N1. In both families, the father and a boy are each exhibiting bird flu symptoms. Of course, that could be anything from bad breakfast to dengue to the Real Thing.
But what separates this incident from the usual reports is the actions of the regional government to bring in food and supplies, so the villagers do not leave the village. This would seem to infer that the village is in quarantine and locked down, inasmuch as you can lock down a remote village.
We will have to wait for some sort of indication that the suspected infections are or are not H5N1. But for now, it would seem that the silence has been broken and human cases are beginning to filter out of the Jakarta news blackout and into the view of Flublogia.
Stay tuned. Thread at http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/showthread.php?t=72002&page=6 . Map poached from the always-reliable poster Laidback Al.
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