Sunday, November 11, 2007
Indonesian man dies of bird flu - health official
JAKARTA (Reuters) - An Indonesian man from Riau province on Sumatra island has died of bird flu, taking the country’s death toll from the disease to 91, a health ministry official said on Saturday.
It was not clear if the 31-year-old man who died on Tuesday had been in contact with sick fowl, the most common way of contracting the disease, health ministry spokeswoman Lili Sulistyowati said by telephone text message.
Another official at the ministry’s bird flu center said the man, who had been suffering from a cough, fever and breathing difficulties, died while being transferred from a local hospital in Duri district to a hospital in Pekanbaru, the provincial capital.
“It is not clear about his contact with sick fowl, but our investigation team has been there,” said Joko Suyono at the bird flu center.
Bird flu story source: Reuters‘