Bird Flu Kills Indonesia Woman

World | November 5, 2005, Saturday // 00:00

A woman aged 19 has died of bird flu in Indonesia, media broke Saturday. An eight-year-old boy from her family has also been hospitalized with the virus. The victim, from the town of Tangerang on the outskirts of the Indonesia capital Jakarta, was believed to have contracted the virus from infected dead chickens in her neighborhood, a Health Ministry official has said. The lethal H5N1 strain of bird flu has killed at least 62 people in Southeast Asia since 2003.

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