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...logic of virology, Indonesia's decision was unconscionable and self-defeating. We need surveillance in every nation to track bird flu as it changes. But Jakarta got the attention of WHO officials, who came to the Indonesian capital earlier this week for an emergency meeting at which Health Minister Siti Fadilah Supari called the current distribution system "more dangerous than the threat of an H5N1 pandemic itself." On March 27 the two sides reached a temporary compromise: Indonesia would resume sharing virus samples with the WHO, but for now that access wouldn't be extended to the drug industry. That...
...While the spread of bird flu has yet to cause significant panic, the government is taking seriously fears that the virus may jump into the human population. On Friday, Health Minister Siti Fadila Supari announced that Indonesia had been granted a license to produce Tamiflu, the best-known treatment for bird flu. Swiss pharmaceutical giant Roche approved requests to domestically produce and distribute the medication in Indonesia, the Philippines and Thailand, where the anti-viral drug is not patent protected...
...Sept. 19, after a zoo in the capital reported an outbreak among its birds, the government declared avian flu an "extraordinary event"?but officials later admitted they weren't sure what the designation meant. Two days later, as more suspected human cases appeared in and around Jakarta, Health Minister Siti Fadillah Supari caused a minor panic by telling reporters that the city was experiencing a bird-flu epidemic; she later retracted the comment. "The government effort is not at all coordinated," says Anton Supit, chairman of the Indonesian Poultry Breeders Association, who complains that officials haven't told chicken farmers...
...occurred in Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Russia, Thailand, Vietnam, and possibly Laos. And, of 112 laboratory-confirmed cases in humans, 57 people died from the disease. With no known capacity of person-to-person transmission, human cases of the virus have been relatively isolated, but the Indonesian Health Minister, Siti Fadilah Supari, warned of more possible victims in her country and forewarned the change to a humanly transmittable strain is “just a matter of time...
...surpassed by Golkar, the political machine created by former dictator Suharto, who was forced to resign in 1998. Nostalgia is growing for the Suharto era, when prices were stable and economic growth strong, and that could benefit both Golkar and a party recently formed by Suharto's daughter, Siti Hardiyanti Rukmana. Another threat is posed by Megawati's former security chief, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono of the Democrat Party, who rivals his former boss in opinion polls. Even so, Megawati remains the candidate to beat in July, thanks to her pedigree as daughter of Indonesia's founding President Sukarno. No other...