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The global press and the Indonesian Health Ministry are reporting yet another H5N1-positive infection in Tangerang province.  As you can see on the map, Tangerang is just west of the Indonesian capital of Jakarta.

The victim, a three-year old boy, lives in the same neighborhood as Dewi Aprilliani, the five-year old girl who died of H5N1 last week.  There appears to be no contact between the two children, however.  Poultry is again suspected as the vector.  Roughly twenty contacts of the young boy are also being tested, according to multiflusite poster and lay translators Commonground and  Dutchy.

The boy, despite receiving delayed treatment (he came down with symptoms the 22nd of October but went to hospital five days later), is responding well to Tamiflu.  Bird flu has killed three children in Tangerang this month alone, according to Indonesian newspaper http://www.antara.co.id/en/arc/2007/...-in-indonesia/ .

Links to the stories are at: http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/20...nt_6970842.htm  or  http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/JAK14415.htm