There is no AI Virus Transmission from Human to Human

JAKARTA (SINDO) – The National Committee for Bird Flu Control and Influenza Pandemic Preparedness (Komnas FBPI) ensured that there is no bird flu virus (avian influenza / AI) transmission from human to human in Indonesia.
Chief Executive of Komnas FBPI, Bayu Krisnamurthi, said that his office has confirmed this to the World Health Organization (WHO). According to Bayu, bird flu cases (H5N1) in Pakistan is still animal to human transmission.

This case is similar with the bird flu case that happened in Cairo in 2006. “In Indonesia there is no status change from three to four, which is still from animal to human, not human to human,” said Bayu in Jakarta, yesterday. As was said in the news, WHO previously stated they have found indications of bird flu virus transmission from human to human in Pakistan. Experts from WHO confirmed that is was the first case of human to human transmission. But, they also said that this transmission was very limited therefore there was no risk of expanding.
Special tests conducted at laboratories in Cairo and London resulted that the person who was fatally infected by the H5N1 virus did not have any contact history with infected poultry. The Ministry of Health also declined any human to human transmission of AI in Indonesia. The Director General of Disease Control and Environmental Health of the Ministry of Health, I Nyoman Kandun, said that until now there is no strong evidence of AI human to human transmission in Indonesia. Even in the bird flu case in Karo district in North Sumatera a year ago, which was claimed as a cluster, no human to human transmission was proved to exist. (susi)