# 1200
Another Monday, another report of a child with bird flu in Indonesia. It's beginning to feel like a pattern. Of late, we seem to start each week with this sort of news.
This time its a 3-year-old boy, initials S.A., in Tanggerang near the outskirts of Jakarta, and officials report the child is in good condition.
Two other children have died in Tanggerang this month from H5N1. The last one, a 5-year-old girl, succumbed last week. A report carried by Antara News denies any direct contact between the two children.
This from Xinhua news.
Indonesian toddler infected by bird flu
www.chinaview.cn
2007-10-29 14:46:49
JAKARTA, Oct. 29 (Xinhua) -- A 3-year-old Indonesian boy from Tanggerang in outskirts of Jakarta was contracted by avian influenza, Health Ministry said here on Monday.
The boy has been treating in a bird-flu designed hospital of Sulianti Suroso in Jakarta since Saturday, Director of Disease Control of the ministry Nyoman Kandun said here.
He was on a good condition, he said.
"Two laboratory tests showed today that the boy is positive of avian influenza," Kandun told Xinhua.
He said that the boy had historical contact with dead fowls around his resident.
But, Kandun said that there was no family links between the boy and the his neighbor girl who died last week on bird flu.
The boy first felt the germs of the disease on Oct. 22 and admitted to the hospital five days later, Suharda Ningrum an official of anti-bird flu center of the ministry told Xinhua.
