The World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed that the 42nd human bird flu
death in Indonesia, bring the country as the world-worst-hit by the virus along
with Vietnam, a senior official of Indonesian Health Ministry said here on
Thursday.
"The result was positive, we received from the WHO affiliated-laboratory in
Hong Kong today," Hariadi Wibisono, the director at the ministry told Xinhua.
According to the director, the 44-year-old man, who died last week at a
hospital in East Jakarta, had the H5N1 virus.
Two months ago, the biggest cluster bird flu in the world was found in
Indonesia's North Sumatra province, followed by one in the province of Surabaya.
Bird flu has killed at least 132 people worldwide since it started ravaging
Asian poultry stocks in late 2003, according to WHO.
