Indonesia's latest bird flu patient dies: hospital
Posted on: Wednesday, 11 January 2006, 22:56 CST
JAKARTA (Reuters) - A 29-year-old Indonesian woman who had bird flu according to a local test result has died, a hospital spokesman said on Thursday.
Ilham Patu from Jakarta's Sulianti Saroso hospital said the woman died late on Wednesday after her condition worsened. Officials had announced she was positive for bird flu only hours earlier.
Foreign laboratories recognized by the World Health Organization have so far confirmed 11 deaths and five other cases in Indonesia where patients survived.
The woman's results have been sent to a Hong Kong laboratory.
Local tests also show a 39-year-old Indonesian man died of bird flu earlier this month, although there has been no confirmation yet of that result, officials said this week.
Officials at the Sulianti Saroso hospital, designated to treat bird flu patients in Jakarta, have said the woman had contact with dead chickens.
The H5N1 virus cannot pass easily between humans at the moment, but experts fear it could develop that ability and set off a global pandemic which might kill millions of people.
It has killed 76 people in Southeast Asia and China since 2003. Cases have also emerged in Turkey, the first human infections outside East Asia.
Source: REUTERS
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