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DOCTORS STILL UNCERTAIN BRITON HAS SWINE FLU
Denpasar, Bali, June 24 (ANTARA) - Doctors at Denpasar's Sanglah hospital have yet to confirm that British national Bobie Masoner (22) is positively infected with swine flu or the H1N1 virus.
"Although she is a swine flu suspect patient we are not yet certain that she has positively contracted the H1N1 strain of the virus," Dr Agus Somia, chief of Sanglah hospital's Swine Flu Handling Team, said here on Wednesday.
Dr Sri Budayanti, head of the laboratory of Udayana University's Bio-molecular Medical Faculty, concurred, saying that a laboratory test was still needed to ascertain whether or not she was carnying the virus.
"We still have to wait for the result of a laboratory test to confirm or deny that the foreign national is suffering from swine flu," Sri Budayanti said.
Because the result of a laboratory test was still being awaited, Dr Sri and Dr Agus said, they would not yet declare Masoner a swine flu sufferer.
In the meantime, Health Minister Siti Fadilah Supari announced earlier that two new patients were positively infected with the swine flu virus.
"After several months without new cases, we have now found two people s who have tested positive for the H1N1 virus. They had just arrived from overseas," she said in Jakarta on Wednesday.
The two swine flu infected people are a pilot identified as WA (37) from Jakarta and BM (22), a British national who was visiting Bali.
WA visited Australia on June 14 and Hong Kong on June 18. On June 19, he suffered from fever and went to see a doctor at Sulianti Saroso hospital in Jakarta and until now he is still being treated there.
BM arrived in Bali on June 19 and with a health alert card was admitted to the Sanglah Hospital in Bali on June 20.
"The health conditions of the two patients are relatively good but they are still isolated in the hospital," the minister said.
Supari said that the two patients would be allowed to move out of the isolation rooms only after they were declared free from the H1N1 virus, or had recovered from the disease.***3***
"Although she is a swine flu suspect patient we are not yet certain that she has positively contracted the H1N1 strain of the virus," Dr Agus Somia, chief of Sanglah hospital's Swine Flu Handling Team, said here on Wednesday.
Dr Sri Budayanti, head of the laboratory of Udayana University's Bio-molecular Medical Faculty, concurred, saying that a laboratory test was still needed to ascertain whether or not she was carnying the virus.
"We still have to wait for the result of a laboratory test to confirm or deny that the foreign national is suffering from swine flu," Sri Budayanti said.
Because the result of a laboratory test was still being awaited, Dr Sri and Dr Agus said, they would not yet declare Masoner a swine flu sufferer.
In the meantime, Health Minister Siti Fadilah Supari announced earlier that two new patients were positively infected with the swine flu virus.
"After several months without new cases, we have now found two people s who have tested positive for the H1N1 virus. They had just arrived from overseas," she said in Jakarta on Wednesday.
The two swine flu infected people are a pilot identified as WA (37) from Jakarta and BM (22), a British national who was visiting Bali.
WA visited Australia on June 14 and Hong Kong on June 18. On June 19, he suffered from fever and went to see a doctor at Sulianti Saroso hospital in Jakarta and until now he is still being treated there.
BM arrived in Bali on June 19 and with a health alert card was admitted to the Sanglah Hospital in Bali on June 20.
"The health conditions of the two patients are relatively good but they are still isolated in the hospital," the minister said.
Supari said that the two patients would be allowed to move out of the isolation rooms only after they were declared free from the H1N1 virus, or had recovered from the disease.***3***
