67 year old woman dies in Indonesia
October 17th, 2006
A 67 year old woman from Indonesia that had been treated in a hospital for the last week, died as a result of an infection with a highly pathogenic strain of avian influenza virus. She is now the country’s 54th human victim, out of 71 confirmed infections. The virus was very aggressive in her case, as doctors report and the patient died on Sunday night. The virus strain identified in this case is the highly pathogenic H5N1 and hospital officials say that the disease had also affected the woman’s kidneys. Indonesia has now long been the world’s most affected country by bird flu, but authorities are still reluctant to use mass culling as a way of containing the disease.