Description of the situation
12 April 2006
The Ministry of Health in Indonesia has confirmed the country’s 31st case of human infection with the H5N1 avian influenza virus. The case occurred in a 23-year-old man employed as a poultry worker in West Java.
He developed symptoms on 20 March and has since fully recovered. Poultry deaths occurred in the two weeks preceding his visit to a farm.
Of the 31 laboratory-confirmed cases in Indonesia, 23 have been fatal.