The World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed 49 deaths out of 65 cases of
avian influenza in Indonesia, the organization spokesperson in Jakarta said here
Thursday.
The death figure rose after the international organization revised the
definition of confirmation for the case on August 29, spokesperson Sari Setiogi
said.
"The revision has made three probable cases include in categorize of
confirm," she told Xinhua here.
The three new confirmation were an 8-year-old girl who died in June last year
from an outskirts of Jakarta, Tanggerang, a 45-year-old man from Magelang, in
Central Java province, who survived, and a 5 and a half-year-old boy from
outskirts of Jakarta, Bekasi, whodied in March this year, said Setiogi.
Indonesia has been the bird flu hardest-hit country after the number of the
cases surpassed the figure in Vietnam.
More than 40 millions people were killed in a bird flu pandemic between 1918
to 1919, according to the World Health Organization.
