Tests Show Woman Was Infected With Bird Flu
From Times Wire Reports
IN BRIEF/INDONESIA —
Laboratory tests show that a 25-year-old woman who died in Jakarta, Indonesia’s capital, had bird flu, officials said.
Dr. Ilham Patu, a spokesman for Jakarta’s infectious-diseases hospital, said the government was waiting for the tests on the woman to be confirmed by a World Health Organization-accredited laboratory in Hong Kong. That could take several days.
The H5N1 bird flu virus has killed at least 68 people in Asia since 2003.
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