Indonesian Girl Who Dies Wednesday Not Infected With Bird Flu: Minister
Posted on: Thursday, 22 September 2005, 09:01 CDT
Indonesian girl who dies Wednesday not infected with bird flu: minister
JAKARTA, Sept. 22 (Xinhua) -- Indonesian Health Minister Siti Fadilah Supari said early laboratory tests on a blood sample from Ris (five years and seven months old), a suspected avian flu patient at the Sulianto Saroso Hospital who died on Wednesday morning, had shown she had not been infected with the virus.
"The first sample was negative," Antara news agency Thursday quoted the minister as saying. But the minister added her ministry was now still making further tests to establish the cause of Ris's death.
If Ris had positively died of the deadly disease, she would have been the country's fifth fatality after Iwan Siswara Rafei and his two daughters in July and a 37-year-old woman on Sept. 10, the minister added.
There are now six people suspected of having been infected with the disease, she said.
To optimize the efforts aiming to fight the virus, she said, the government has declared the avian flu an extraordinary happening.
Source: Xinhua News Agency - CEIS
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