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December 19, 2012

Four-year-old dies from bird flu in Indonesia
Jakarta (AFP) Dec 18, 2012
A four-year-old boy has died of bird flu in Indonesia, the health ministry said Tuesday, the 10th fatal case in the country this year. The boy, from Bogor district in western Java, died on December 6 after a week of high fever. "He contracted the H5N1 (bird flu) virus from playing with chickens at his home," Rita Kusriastuti, head of animal-borne infectious diseases at the ministry, told AFP. Health officials said last week they had identified a more virulent strain of the H5N1 virus in the ... read more

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