Indonesia bird flu death hits 59

Bird flu or Avian flu, also avian influenza, bird influenza, means flu from viruses adapted to birds, but is sometimes mistakenly used to refer to both other flu subsets such as H5N1 flu or the viruses that cause them such as H5N1.

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Indonesia bird flu death hits 59

Bird Flu :: Indonesia bird flu death hits 59

A 37-year-old Indonesian woman has died of bird flu, taking the country's human death toll to 59, a hospital official said in Indonesia. The woman, from Serpong town in western Java, had been diagnosed as positive for the virus earlier this week.

The woman died because of organs malfunction which is caused by bird flu virus H5N1, at Persahabatan Hospital, Indonesia. Since 2004 some 260 humans have been infected with bird flu in 10 countries, with about 157 fatalities, mostly in Asia, according to the World Health Organization.

(Published at www.spiritindia.com on Thursday, January 11, 2007)
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