Monday, May 08, 2006
WHO (World Health Organization) confirms 25th Indonesian bird flu death
JAKARTA (AFX) - Indonesia’s 25th bird flu death has been confirmed by World Health Organization tests, a health ministry official said.
‘We were contacted by the WHO office in Jakarta yesterday over the laboratory results of the 30-year-old man who died on April 26, which came out positive,’ Joko Suyono of the health ministry’s bird flu information center was quoted by Agence France-Presse as saying.
‘He is confirmed as Indonesia’s 25th bird flu fatality.’
The man, a resident of Jakarta’s satellite town of Tangerang, had a history of contact with sick poultry and died at the capital’s main hospital for the treatment of bird flu patients.
WHO’s Asia chief last weekend warned that the sprawling archipelago nation needed to work harder at the grassroots level to act against H5N1.
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