Indonesian girl thought to have bird flu dies

An Indonesian Hospital official stated Sunday that a 10-year-old girl from the Indonesian island of Sumatra, who was admitted to the hospital with bird flu like symptoms, has died.

“She was admitted on Saturday but died less than 12 hours later, at around 11pm (0200 AEST),” said Azizman Daad, a doctor at the Arifin Achmad hospital in Riau province.

Daad said that samples from the 10-year-old’s body were to be sent to the capital Jakarta for testing to confirm the cause of death. Local tests indicated that she had bird flu.

Bird flu article source: The West Australian

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