From: Subject: August 10, 2008 Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 13:54:52 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Location: mhtml:file://C:\Newsletter_10_August_2008.mht X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3198 August 10, = 2008

August 10,=20 2008


Indonesia = reports that all=20 of the suspected cases of avian flu tested negative in Asahan district, = North=20 Sumatra


On=20 Saturday, August 9, the director general of the Indonesian Ministry of = Health,=20 Nyoman Kandun, was quoted by the media (Agence France Presse (AFP)) in = Jakarta=20 as reporting that =93All specimens collected from suspect cases have = given=20 negative results. They are all recovered=94, in reference to the = suspected H5N1=20 infection in 13 persons from Asahan district in North=20 Sumatra.

The Program for Monitoring Emerging Diseases = (ProMED-mail) posted this report as well as the statement that: =93Until = further=20 notice, ProMed-mail will not report suspected human cases of avian = influenza in=20 Indonesia until they have = been=20 confirmed by the Indonesian Ministry of Health.



Daniel R. = Lucey,=20 MD, MPH
EROne Department of Emergency Medicine
Washington Hospital = Center
Washington, D.C.
website:http://www.bepast.org/