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Tue, 07/14/2009 - 15:34
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DUTCH STUDENT IN MAUMERE SWINE FLU SUSPECT, 12 OTHERS QUARANTINED
Kupang, Indonesia, July 14 (ANTARA) - Twelve of a group of 13 Dutch students visiting East Nusa Tenggara (NTT)'s Sikka district have been quarantined by local health authorities after one of them fell ill with swine flu symptoms last Saturday (July 11).
The student suspected to have been infected with the H1N1 virus and identified as Yuri van Vassen (16), was admitted to the TC Hillers General Hospital in Maumere where on Tuesday he was still recovering.
"We handed the 12 other Dutch students to the Maumere public health service but they have for the time being been put under quarantine in this hospital," Dr Asen Purnama, head of TC Hillers General Hospital said when telephoned from Kupang on Tuesday.
The Dutch student group came to Sikka district on Tuesday (July 7) to visit the Natifikasi Foundation of Maumere to which they had once contributed financially. But four days after their arrival in Maumere, Yuri van Hasen fell ill with fever and headache.
Yuri was first taken to Lela Hospital where doctors suspected he was suffering from swine flu and later transferred to JC Hillers General Hospital.
Purnama said since being treated in an isolation room at JC Hillers General Hospital Yuri's condition had steadily improved whereas at the beginning his body temperature had been as high as 37.8 degrees and he was coughing constantly.
Although his condition had improved, Yuri was not yet allowed to leave the hospital as the result of laboratory tests on specimen of his body fluids conducted in Denpasar, Bali, to determine whether or not he had really been infected with the H1N1 virus had not yet arrived at JC Hillers Hospital.
"We are still waiting for the lab test results to know whether or not Yuri was infected," Purnama said.***
The student suspected to have been infected with the H1N1 virus and identified as Yuri van Vassen (16), was admitted to the TC Hillers General Hospital in Maumere where on Tuesday he was still recovering.
"We handed the 12 other Dutch students to the Maumere public health service but they have for the time being been put under quarantine in this hospital," Dr Asen Purnama, head of TC Hillers General Hospital said when telephoned from Kupang on Tuesday.
The Dutch student group came to Sikka district on Tuesday (July 7) to visit the Natifikasi Foundation of Maumere to which they had once contributed financially. But four days after their arrival in Maumere, Yuri van Hasen fell ill with fever and headache.
Yuri was first taken to Lela Hospital where doctors suspected he was suffering from swine flu and later transferred to JC Hillers General Hospital.
Purnama said since being treated in an isolation room at JC Hillers General Hospital Yuri's condition had steadily improved whereas at the beginning his body temperature had been as high as 37.8 degrees and he was coughing constantly.
Although his condition had improved, Yuri was not yet allowed to leave the hospital as the result of laboratory tests on specimen of his body fluids conducted in Denpasar, Bali, to determine whether or not he had really been infected with the H1N1 virus had not yet arrived at JC Hillers Hospital.
"We are still waiting for the lab test results to know whether or not Yuri was infected," Purnama said.***
