One case after another in Indonesia
August 16th, 2006
Another bird flu suspicion surfaces in Indonesia, as a nine year old girl from Cikelet, in West Java’s Garut district, is suspected of carrying the bird flu virus. The area is the same where the country’s latest confirmed case died in hospital, just recently and bringing Indonesia’s victim count to 44. A doctor from Garut’s main hospital told the press that the girl, living in a village from Cikelet, was admitted to hospital with typical symptoms of pneumonia. Suspecting a bird flu case, doctors put her in an isolation unit and took samples to test. However her condition remained critical until her death yesterday.