Health Minister Siti Fadillah Supari says, "We and the agriculture ministry will take firm action, including culling."
Government officials recently confirmed the deaths of a father and his 2-daughters tested positive for the H5N1 strain of the bird flu virus.
Supari continues, "It is possible they had been infected by the virus from the farm, located in Tangerang district southwest of the capital. The poultry and pigs should have been destroyed but it wasn't the case at that time because some of them were vaccinated."
He adds, "Apart from culling, measures will include close surveillance of people who may have been in infected areas, preparing hospitals nationwide to treat patients and an information campaign about the virus."
