Indonesian boy dies of bird flu - health ministry

JAKARTA, Oct 13 (Reuters) - A 12-year-old Indonesian boy has died of bird flu, taking the total death toll from the disease in the country to 88, a health ministry official said on Saturday.

Another official at the ministry’s bird flu center had earlier said was not clear how the boy, from Tanggerang city in West Java, contracted the virus, but that some chickens had died in his neighborhood.

“A team has conducted an investigation to find out how the boy got infected and we are waiting for the result,” the bird flu center’s Daswir Nurdin said.

Bird flu story source: Reuters‘

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