Monday, May 07, 2007

Indonesia Reports New Bird Flu Fatality

 

# 737

 

Details are sketchy this morning, but Reuters is reporting the following story out of Indonesia.

 

 

Indonesian woman dies from bird flu -health ministry

Mon 7 May 2007, 7:44 GMT

 

JAKARTA, May 7 (Reuters) - An Indonesian woman has died from bird flu, a health ministry official said on Monday, taking the country's human death toll to 75.

 

Joko Suyono said by telephone the H5N1 virus had been confirmed after two laboratory tests on samples from the victim.

 

The woman, 29, who was from Pekanbaru in Riau province on Sumatra island, died on May 3 and had been suffering from fever and respiratory problems, another health ministry official said.