JAKARTA (AP): A 16-year-old girl died from bird flu, the Health Ministry said Tuesday, raising Indonesia's death toll to 96.
The girl, from the town of Bekasi on the eastern outskirts of the capital, Jakarta, developed symptoms on Dec. 30 and had been hospitalized since Jan. 4.
She died on Tuesday and laboratory results showed she had an infection of the H5N1 strain of the virus, the Health Ministry said in a statement.
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