Indonesia woman dies of bird flu, raising country's death toll to 92

The Jakarta Post

JAKARTA(AP): An Indonesian woman has died of bird flu, bringing the death toll in the country worst hit by the virus to 92, a Health Ministry official said Tuesday.

The 28-year-old mother died Monday at a bird flu clinic in the capital, said spokesman Joko Suyono. Two laboratory tests confirmed she had the deadly H5N1 strain of the disease, he said.

Indonesia has recorded regular deaths from bird flu since the virus began ravaging poultry stocks across Asia in 2003 and its 92 deaths now account for almost half of the recorded fatalities worldwide, according to figures from the World Health Organization.