Tuesday, July 10, 2007

6 year old boy is Indonesia's 81st H5N1 victim

"A 6-year-old Indonesian boy died of bird flu at the weekend, bringing the country's death toll from the disease to 81, officials said on Monday. The boy, from the city of Cilegon in Banten province, suffered from high fever and breathing difficulties before he died of multi-organ failure on Sunday, said Tuty Hendrarwardati, the spokeswoman of Jakarta's bird flu hospital. "

The report says that his family and neighbors did not keep chickens, so it is not known how we contracted the disease

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/JAK1907.htm

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