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Bird flu claims 91st life in Indonesia
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JAKARTA: A 31-year-old Indonesian man has died of bird flu, raising the country’s death toll from the H5N1 avian influenza virus to 91 – the world’s highest, a Health Ministry official said yesterday. The man, identified by his initials MN, originally from Bengkalis district of Riau province in Sumatra Island, died on Tuesday just as he was admitted to Pekanbaru’s Arifin Achmad Hospital, said Dasir Nurdin, an official at the Health Ministry’s bird-flu information centre. |
Dasir said the man fell sick on Oct 31 and sought medical treatment at a health clinic nearby on Nov 3 before being admitted three days later to the provincial designated hospital for bird flu. “The man died on his arrival at the hospital”, Dasir said. The Health Ministry’s provincial team is still investigating the history of the man’s illness. |
His death was Indonesia’s 91st out of 113 diagnosed cases of bird flu in humans. – dpa. |
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