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UI TO PRODUCE H1N1 VACCINE
Depok, Indonesia, July 27 (ANTARA) - The University of Indonesia (UI) has asked other universities to cooperate in producing swine flu vaccine, its rector Gumilar Rusliwa Somantri said here on Monday.
"UI needs to cooperate with other universities such as the University of Gajah Mada (UGM), Bogor Institute of Agriculture (IPB), Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB) to produce swine flu vaccine," Gumilar Rusliwa Somantri said.
He said UI would also cooperate with the Ministry of Health and international institutes.
"We need a big amount of funds to produce the swine vaccine and therefore we want to cooperate not only with other universities but also with the Ministry of Health and other parties," the UI rector said.
He said UI's Institute for Human Virology and Cancer Biology (IHVCB) was already cooperating with the Department of Microbiology at the Faculty of Medicine in research on H1N1 vaccine.
According to Gumilar, a research team from UI was observing systematically the characteristics of the H1N1 virus using sophisticated instruments.
He said UI was ready to support the government by producing swine flu vaccine, although a big amount of funds was needed to run the project.
The Health Ministry's reported that as of Friday, July 24, 2009, twenty-one more people were infected with H1N1 virus and raised the national number of infection cases to 343, consisting of 193 men and 150 women.
The new cases, according to the Health Ministry's report, were found in Jakarta, West Java, Banten, Riau Islands, Bali, Yogyakarta, North Sumatra, East Java, East Kalimantan and South Kalimantan.
The patients including some foreigners mostly had a history of traveling to infected countries such as Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Japan, Hong Kong and South Korea.
The director general of disease control and environment health of the ministry of health, Tjandra Yoga Aditama, said the government continued controlling the spread of the disease.
Efforts include intensifying monitoring through port health services, preparing reference hospitals and medicine, intensifying surveillance against influenza-typed diseases and preparing laboratories and increasing campaign in disease prevention.
He said the government had also encouraged people to get involved in community-based surveillance activities and asked them to immediately report to health care centers in case they had a flu. ***
"UI needs to cooperate with other universities such as the University of Gajah Mada (UGM), Bogor Institute of Agriculture (IPB), Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB) to produce swine flu vaccine," Gumilar Rusliwa Somantri said.
He said UI would also cooperate with the Ministry of Health and international institutes.
"We need a big amount of funds to produce the swine vaccine and therefore we want to cooperate not only with other universities but also with the Ministry of Health and other parties," the UI rector said.
He said UI's Institute for Human Virology and Cancer Biology (IHVCB) was already cooperating with the Department of Microbiology at the Faculty of Medicine in research on H1N1 vaccine.
According to Gumilar, a research team from UI was observing systematically the characteristics of the H1N1 virus using sophisticated instruments.
He said UI was ready to support the government by producing swine flu vaccine, although a big amount of funds was needed to run the project.
The Health Ministry's reported that as of Friday, July 24, 2009, twenty-one more people were infected with H1N1 virus and raised the national number of infection cases to 343, consisting of 193 men and 150 women.
The new cases, according to the Health Ministry's report, were found in Jakarta, West Java, Banten, Riau Islands, Bali, Yogyakarta, North Sumatra, East Java, East Kalimantan and South Kalimantan.
The patients including some foreigners mostly had a history of traveling to infected countries such as Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Japan, Hong Kong and South Korea.
The director general of disease control and environment health of the ministry of health, Tjandra Yoga Aditama, said the government continued controlling the spread of the disease.
Efforts include intensifying monitoring through port health services, preparing reference hospitals and medicine, intensifying surveillance against influenza-typed diseases and preparing laboratories and increasing campaign in disease prevention.
He said the government had also encouraged people to get involved in community-based surveillance activities and asked them to immediately report to health care centers in case they had a flu. ***
