Tuesday, August 18, 2009

FLU H1N1 DI AUSTRALIA SUDAH TEWASKAN 121 ORANG

Virus Flu H1N1 (flu babi) di Australia belum menunjukkan tanda-tanda mereda. Data Departemen Kesehatan Australia, Rabu, menunjukkan jumlah penderita flu babi di negara itu sudah mencapai 32.224 orang dan 121 orang di antaranya meninggal dunia.

Dibandingkan kondisi 7 Agustus lalu, jumlah penderita naik sebesar 7.275 orang atau kenaikan per hari mencapai sedikitnya 606 orang sedangkan angka kematian naik sebanyak 36 orang.

Pada 7 Agustus lalu, jumlah penderita Flu H1N1 di delapan negara bagian di Australia tercatat 24.949 orang dan 85 orang di antaranya meninggal dunia.

Negara bagian dengan jumlah korban meninggal tertinggi masih dipegang New South Wales (33), disusul Queensland (26), Victoria (22), Australia Barat (15), Australia Selatan (12), Northern Territory (5), Tasmania (6), dan ACT (2).

Sejak Organisasi Kesehatan Dunia (WHO) mengumumkan adanya ancaman pandemi flu babi di dunia 24 April lalu, sudah 3.802 orang penderita Flu A H1N1 di Australia yang dirawat di rumah sakit. Namun jumlah mereka yang masih dirawat kini tercatat 460 orang.

Dari 460 orang pasien flu babi itu, sebanyak 100 orang di antaranya dirawat di unit gawat darurat di berbagai rumah sakit di negara bagian NSW, ACT, Queensland, Northern Territory, Australia Selatan, Tasmania, Victoria, dan Australia Barat.

Otoritas kesehatan Australia telah memperkuat langkah penanganan pandemi Flu A H1N1 ini ditandai dengan menggelar uji coba pemakaian vaksin Flu A H1N1 sejak 22 Juli lalu.

Seperti pernah disampaikan Menteri Kesehatan Australia, Nicola Roxon, pemerintah menyiapkan dana 44 juta dolar Australia selama empat tahun guna mendukung program vaksin gratis untuk melindungi rakyat dari ancaman flu musiman.

Warga Australia berusia tua merupakan salah satu sasaran program vaksin gratis yang akan mulai berlaku 1 Januari 2010, katanya.

Namun Departemen Kesehatan Australia mengingatkan warganya agar tidak membeli Tamiflu secara "online" (yang ditawarkan lewat Internet-red.) dengan alasan "tidak aman".

*) My news for ANTARA on Aug 19, 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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