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Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Man dies from bird flu in Indonesia: officials

An AFP report hosted by Google News, excerpt :

" A 24-year-old Indonesian man infected with bird flu died in the capital Jakarta, the health ministry said, in the country's third fatal case in three months.

"Test results from the man who died confirmed that he was infected with bird flu," health ministry head of communicable diseases Tjandra Yoga Aditama told AFP.

The man likely contracted the H5N1 avian influenza virus from birds living around his house, Aditama said.

"We have taken samples from birds around his home and are waiting for lab results to determine if they were infected with the virus," he said.

The Jakarta Post reported that the man died Saturday after being rejected by a hospital specialising in bird flu, and had on New Year's Eve been misdiagnosed by two other hospitals with a gastric infection and dengue fever.

The man died on on his way to another hospital on the capital's northeastern outskirts, reports said."

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