Friday, July 31, 2009

PERTAMA DI AUSTRALIA, BABI TERTULAR FLU BABI DARI MANUSIA

Pandemi virus flu A H1N1 di Australia sejak Jumat tidak hanya menjangkiti manusia tetapi juga sejumlah babi di negara bagian New South Wales (NSW).

Stasiun TV "ABC" dalam buletin berita "Lateline" Jumat malam melaporkan sebanyak 280 ekor babi di sebuah peternakan di NSW terpaksa dikarantina setelah beberapa ekor di antaranya positif terjangkit flu babi (H1N1).

Pemerintah negara bagian NSW menyebutkan virus flu babi yang menjangkiti babi-babi di peternakan tersebut diyakini berasal dari pemilik dan pekerja peternakan yang sebelumnya terinfeksi gejala flu H1N1.

Terinfeksinya beberapa ekor babi di peternakan di NSW itu merupakan kasus pertama di Australia. Untuk menghambat penyebaran virus flu babi di antara ternak babi dilakukan karantina terhadap 280 ekor babi di peternakan tersebut.

Dalam perkembangan terbaru kasus flu babi di Australia, jumlah penderita hingga Jumat malam mencapai 21.668 orang. Sebanyak 61 orang di antaranya meninggal dunia.

Menurut data terkini Departemen Kesehatan Pemerintah Federal Australia, korban flu babi itu tersebar di negara bagian NSW (22), Victoria (17),. Queensland (8), Australia Selatan (6), Northern Territory (3), Tasmania (3), dan Australia Barat (2).

Sejak Organisasi Kesehatan Dunia (WHO) mengumumkan ancaman pandemi flu babi di dunia 24 April lalu, jumlah penderita flu H1N1 di Australia yang dirawat di rumah sakit mencapai 2.525 orang. Saat ini, masih ada 413 orang penderita yang dirawat. Dari jumlah itu, sebanyak 108 orang di antaranya dirawat di unit gawat darurat.

*) My news for ANTARA on July 31, 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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