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Over the weekend there was much speculation that a 30-year-old woman from Bandung had died of the H5N1 virus. Tests have reportedly come back negative.
Tests clear suspected bird flu death in Indonesia
(AFP)
25 September 2007JAKARTA - Two tests on samples from an Indonesian woman feared to have died of bird flu at the weekend have cleared her of carrying the virus, a health ministry official said Tuesday.
“Both test results were negative,” said Ningrum, a doctor on duty at the health ministry’s bird flu information centre.
She was referring to a 30-year-old woman who died in hospital in the West Java city of Bandung on Saturday displaying symptoms of infection with the H5N1 virus.
Two tests, usually of samples of blood and tissue, must come back positive for the virus before a victim is confirmed as infected in Indonesia, where the death toll of 85 from avian influenza is the highest in the world.
