Indonesia Declares SARS National Epidemic Threat

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Indonesia Declares SARS National Epidemic Threat

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At least five alleged cases of the potentially fatal disease known as Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) have been reported in Indonesia, prompting the government to declare SARS a national epidemic threat, The Jakarta Post reported Thursday.

In a bid to prevent SARS from spreading further around the country, Minister of Health Achmad Sujudi is expected to issue a ministerial decree on Thursday to implement law on epidemic diseases.

Sujudi earlier said the government had appointed certain hospitals as SARS clinics.

He disclosed that the government had recorded three alleged SARS cases.

Alleged SARS cases are those who return from SARS infected areas, and have no known history of contact with a SARS patient, but suffer from flu or flu-like symptoms.

On Wednesday, Umar Fahmi Achmadi, director General of Communicable Diseases Eradication and Environment Health, said another two alleged SARS cases were found in Semarang, Central Java, and in Jakarta.

The first alleged SARS case occurred to an Indonesian woman migrant worker who arrived in Batam, Riau, from Singapore earlier this week with flu-like symptom.

She was immediately taken to hospital for further diagnosis.

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