Saturday, July 25, 2009

FLU BABI BUNUH BAYI DALAM KANDUNGAN

Seorang ibu hamil asal Pulau Palm, Townsville, negara bagian Queensland, Australia, harus kehilangan bayinya dalam kandungan akibat virus Influenza A H1N1 yang dideritanya.

Perihal kematian bayi dalam kandungan ibu berusia 19 tahun itu diungkapkan Walikota Pulau Palm, Alf Lacey, kepada ABC, Selasa.

Ibu hamil penderita flu babi dengan komplikasi itu masih dirawat di unit gawat darurat Rumah Sakit Townsville, katanya.

Menurut ABC, kematian bayi dalam kandungan ibu hamil asal Pulau Palm itu menambah jumlah korban flu babi di negara bagian Queensland menjadi dua orang.
Hingga Selasa, jumlah korban pandemi flu babi di negara benua itu sudah mencapai 38 orang.

Data terbaru Departemen Kesehatan Pemerintah Federal Australia menunjukkan angka kematian terbesar ditemukan di Victoria.

Di negara bagian itu, sudah 15 orang pasien meninggal, disusul New South Wales (14), Northern Territory (3), Australia Selatan (2), Queensland (2), dan masing-masing satu di Australia Barat dan Tasmania.

Sejak Organisasi Kesehatan Dunia (WHO) mengeluarkan pengumuman resmi tentang ancaman Influenza A H1N1 24 April lalu, jumlah warga Australia yang positif terjangkit mencapai 14.037 orang.

Para penderita dijumpai di seluruh negara bagian Australia. Dari jumlah itu, sebanyak 1.590 orang dirawat di rumah sakit. Hingga Selasa, Departemen Kesehatan Australia mencatat masih ada 231 orang pasien dirawat. Sebanyak 96 orang di antaranya dirawat di unit gawat darurat.

Sebanyak 43 orang pasien gawat darurat itu menghuni sejumlah rumah sakit di negara bagian New South Wales, dan selebihnya dirawat di berbagai rumah sakit Queensland (19), Victoria (15), Australia Selatan (6), Northern Territory (6), Australia Barat (4), Australian Capital Territory (2), dan Tasmania (1).

WHO melaporkan virus ini sudah menjangkiti sedikitnya 94.512 orang dan menewaskan 429 orang di berbagai negara.

*) My news for ANTARA on July 21, 2009

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Hi, I am a journalist of ANTARA, Indonesia's national news agency whose headquarters is in Jakarta. My fate has brought me back to Australia since March 2007 because my office assigns me to be the ANTARA correspondent there. My first visit to the neighboring country was in 2004 when I did my masters at the School of Journalism and Communication, the University of Queensland (UQ), Brisbane, under the Australian Development Scholarship (ADS) scheme. However, the phase of my life was started from a small town in North Sumatra Province, called Pangkalan Brandan. In that coastal town, I was born and grown up. Having completed my senior high school there in 1987, I moved to Medan to pursue my study at the University of North Sumatra (USU) and obtained my Sarjana (BA) degree in English literature in 1992. My Master of Journalism (MJ) was completed at UQ in July 2005. The final research project report for my MJ degree was entitled "Framing the Australian Embassy Bombing (Jakarta) in Indonesian and Australian Newspapers". Further details about me can be read in a writing posted in my blog entitled "My Life Journey".

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