# 833
On Wednesday, it was a 40 year old from Grobogan, and today it is a 15 year-old girl from Central Java. Very few details are available except, again, almost mantra-like, the media reports she `handled a dead chicken'.
Indonesian teenager dies of bird flu
Fri 1 Jun 2007, 4:02 GMT
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JAKARTA, June 1 (Reuters) - An Indonesian girl from Central Java has died of bird flu, a health ministry official said on Friday.
The girl, 15, from the Kendal area near the city of Semarang, died on Tuesday, Muhammad Nadirin of the ministry's bird flu centre said by telephone.
"She was handling a dead chicken which she was preparing to cook," the official said.
The girl's death takes the human death toll from the H5N1 virus to 79 in Indonesia, the highest in the world. There have been 99 human cases of the disease in the Southeast Asian country.
