JAKARTA, March 31 (Xinhua) — A 15-year-old boy and a 12-year-old girl have died of bird flu in recent days in Indonesia, bringing the total death toll from the H5N1 strain to 107, the Health Ministry said in a statement here Monday.
The boy from the West Java town of Subang died on March 26, the same day he arrived at the Hasan Sadikin Hospital in the provincial capital of Bandung, after about a week of treatment at a smaller hospital in Subang.
A day later, a girl from the Jakarta suburb of Bekasi died at the Persahabatan Hospital, which is among major hospitals to become the center of treatment for bird flu patients.
Indonesia has so far confirmed 132 bird flu cases in human with 107 deaths, becoming the worst affected country.
Source: Xinhua
As you will no doubt recall, the boy that died was being treated for dengue fever at the small hospital where his brother, also diagnosed with dengue fever, died last week. The boy was then transferred to another hospital when he was in extremis. I’m fairly certain the boy’s brother that died a week earlier also died of H5N1.
A 1-year-old girl is currently undergoing treatment in Sumatra for H5N1.
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