Friday, July 10, 2009

FLU BABI SUDAH TEWASKAN 18 ORANG DI AUSTRALIA

Pandemi virus Influenza A H1N1 di Australia semakin mengganas. Hingga Jumat malam, virus flu babi ini telah membunuh 18 orang dan menjangkiti sedikitnya 7.933 orang di seluruh negara bagian.

Data terbaru Departemen Kesehatan Pemerintah Federal Australia menunjukkan adanya tambahan 643 kasus baru dalam 24 jam terakhir.

Episentrum wabah flu babi Australia masih tetap negara bagian Victoria dengan jumlah penderita mencapai 2.067 orang dan angka kematian mencapai 11 orang.

Selain di Victoria, korban flu babi di Australia juga ditemukan di Australia Barat satu orang, Australia Selatan (1), Northern Territory (1), Tasmania (1), dan New South Wales (3).

Dua negara bagian Australia lainnya yang jumlah penderita flu babinya sudah menembus angka di atas seribu orang adalah New South Wales dan Queensland. Jumlah korban di dua negara bagian yang bertetangga ini masing-masing mencapai 1.858 dan 1.776 orang.

Para penderita positif flu babi lainnya tersebar di negara bagian Australian Capital Territory (309), Northern Territory (484), Australia Selatan (860), Tasmania (137), dan Australia Barat (442).

Menurut Departemen Kesehatan Australia, kini ada 111 orang pasien Influenza A H1N1 yang dirawat di rumah sakit di seluruh negara bagian. Sebanyak 30 orang di antaranya dirawat di unit gawat darurat.

Sejak Organisasi Kesehatan Dunia (WHO) mengeluarkan pengumuman resmi tentang ancaman wabah flu babi di dunia pada 24 April lalu, sudah ada 853 orang penderita di Australia yang dirawat di rumah sakit.

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

*) My updated news for ANTARA on July 10, 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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