Via the Indian government's Press Information Bureau: Consolidated status of influenza A H1N1 as on 10th March 2010. It reports 1,401 deaths out of 29,880 confirmed cases.
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Ida at Bird Flu Information Corner has a report from Tempo Interaktif: Indonesia to establish animal derived infectious disease committee. Excerpt:
Government is obliged to develop a special committee for animal derived infectious disease (zoonotic disease) after previous related committee, a bird flu committee, Komnas FPBI, had ended its term of duty on March 2010.
The urgencies had frequently showed up during the seminar of One World One Health: The Disease Battles of the 21th century, Tuesday (9/3).
“The Komnas FPBI has ended its term on this March, so we are now processing the next plan for infection disease control,” said the consultant of Komnas FPBI, Arie Rukmantara.
The seminar which was held by the collaboration work between National Committee for Avian Influenza Control and Influenza Pandemic Preparedness (Komnas FPBI), was also exposing bird flu problems and other infectious diseases in other countries, like Thailand, India, and Indonesia.
One of infectious disease control speaker from West Kalimantan, Indonesia, the Head of Livestock and Animal Health Service, Abdul Manaf Mustafa, claimed that West Kalimantan was one of the areas which had been successfully eradicating bird flu outbreak. “We received the bird flu clear status on January 2010,” said Manaf.
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