Saturday, June 17, 2006
Local test confirms another death of bird flu in Indonesia
Local laboratory examination has showed another Indonesian, a 14-year-old boy, died of bird flu, a health official said on Saturday.
“The local test shows he is positively infected,” Nyoman Kandun, director of the Animal Disease and Health Control Department under the Health Ministry, told Xinhua.
The victim’s blood samples had been sent to the World Health Organization (WHO) affiliated laboratory in Hong Kong for further test, said the director.
The boy, who died on Wednesday in a hospital in the capital, once had contact with dead chickens, he said.