Health Ministry: 2 Indonesians died of bird flu

[I did not have the 6 yo recorded]

The Associated Press
Posted: 01/21/2009 ST

JAKARTA, Indonesia—Two Indonesians have died of bird flu, apparently after contact with sick chickens, raising the country's death toll to 115, the Health Ministry said Wednesday.

A ministry statement said a 6-year-old girl in Bekasi, West Java, died on Jan. 2. She got sick after buying a chicken with her parents at a market and was hospitalized for a week.

A 29-year-old woman died on Dec. 16 in Tangerang just outside the capital, Jakarta. She developed flu-like symptoms after visiting a market and died in a hospital five days later.

Double laboratory testing confirmed they had the H5N1 strain of avian influenza, the statement said.
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