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JAKARTA: An 11-year-old Indonesian boy has died of the virulent H5N1 strain of bird flu, raising the national death toll from the disease to 53, the director of the hospital where the patient was being treated said yesterday. The boy, who was not named by officials, was admitted to the Sulianti Saroso Hospital for Infectious Diseases on Thursday and died on Saturday night, said Dr Santoso Suroso. He was believed to have become infected by dead chickens near his home in south Jakarta, Dr Santoso said. |
Almost all of the fatal human cases have been linked to contact with chickens or their droppings. Indonesia has been criticized for failing to aggressively attack the virus in poultry, either by mass slaughters or vaccination. It has said it lacks the resources to compensate farmers for slaughtered birds. – AP |
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