Diarrhea outbreak inundates Indramayu

INDRAMAYU, West Java: Twenty-two people, 16 of them infants, have been hospitalized over the last week suffering from an unknown ailment with one of the symptoms being severe diarrhea.

Dadang Supriyadi, the head of Indramayu health office, said that such cases where people had symptoms of severe diarrhea had increased greatly in the regency following the start of the rainy season. He said that no fatalities were reported. -- JP