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Indonesia has announced the death of a 32 year-old man from the H5N1 virus.
Indonesian man dies of bird flu, raising country's death toll to 65
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) -- A 32-year-old man from Indonesia's capital died of bird flu, a health official said Friday, raising the death toll in the country worst hit by the virus to 65.
The victim died in a Jakarta hospital on Thursday, said Nyoman Kandun of the health ministry, adding that it was not immediately clear how he contracted the illness.
And today we also learned that the second Laotian case, suspected of having been H5N1, has now been confirmed by a WHO reference lab.
Laos confirms second human bird flu death
Posted: 16 March 2007 1743 hrs
HANOI : Laos confirmed its second human death from bird flu on Friday, a woman who died earlier this month, after results from a lab used by the World Health Organisation (WHO).
Unlike neighbouring countries China, Vietnam, Thailand and Cambodia, the country had been spared any human deaths from the virus, which has killed nearly 170 people, until this year.
But the unidentified 42-year-old woman who died from the virus on March 4 near the capital Vientiane is the second death from the virus here this year - both of them this month. A 15-year-old girl died on March 8.
The woman, from Saka village, had previously tested positive for the H5 strain at the National Laboratory and Epidemiology Centre and had been treated as a probable H5N1 infection.
Laos and the WHO said that a duck in her household had tested positive for H5, and that on Thursday "culling activities were completed" in the village.
