Indonesia: one person died of bird flu

A woman in Sumatra island, Indonesia died of bird flu. Thus, the number of deaths from this disease in Indonesia has reached 87 people. The 44-year-old patient was ill after using chicken in the market in Pekanbaru city in Sumatra. Blood test samples for patients, patients were infected with H5N1 virus.

Indonesia is the country with the largest number of people infected and killed by the world's largest bird flu. The country has confirmed 108 cases, 87 died. In August, a woman died of the H5N1 virus in Bali, the first case of bird flu in the resort island.

Since the H5N1 avian influenza outbreak in Southeast Asia in late 2003, about 180 people have died worldwide. Most people infected with the virus are exposed to sick poultry.

Health workers have talked about the case of women who have recently died of bird flu in Indonesia."The patient was treated for high fever in some hospitals before being taken to Arifin Achmad Hospital on October 4. The patient died a day later. '

United Mail