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Indonesia Confirms 38th Bird-Flu Death
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(Radio Liberty) from Indonesia.
June 15, 2006 -- The World Health Organization has confirmed a 7-year-old Indonesian girl who died last month was infected with bird flu, taking the total number of confirmed bird-flu deaths in Indonesia to 38.
The girl came from the Pamulang area southwest of the capital Jakarta, and died on June 1 after treatment in a Jakarta hospital.
Her 10-year-old brother, who died days earlier, was buried before samples could be taken from him for tests.
The world's fourth-most-populous country, Indonesia is now on track to overtake Vietnam, which has had 42 deaths since 2003, in the number of deaths from bird flu.
The announcement comes after China said that three kinds of new avian-influenza vaccines had successfully been developed.
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Table MountainPosted by Posted by Ninja T. Penguin
(Radio Liberty) from Indonesia.
June 15, 2006 -- The World Health Organization has confirmed a 7-year-old Indonesian girl who died last month was infected with bird flu, taking the total number of confirmed bird-flu deaths in Indonesia to 38.
The girl came from the Pamulang area southwest of the capital Jakarta, and died on June 1 after treatment in a Jakarta hospital.
Her 10-year-old brother, who died days earlier, was buried before samples could be taken from him for tests.
The world's fourth-most-populous country, Indonesia is now on track to overtake Vietnam, which has had 42 deaths since 2003, in the number of deaths from bird flu.
The announcement comes after China said that three kinds of new avian-influenza vaccines had successfully been developed.
China's...
Read More...
