New patient confirmed in Indonesia
October 12th, 2006
A 67 year old woman living in Indonesia’s West Java province is the country’s latest bird flu victim. She was tested positive for the disease on Wednesday and has also been diagnosed with encephalitis. This could make her the first Indonesian victim to suffer brain inflammation as a result of the avian influenza virus. The woman is treated at Hasan Sadikin hospital in Bandung, where she has been placed in isolation. It is believed she contracted the disease from her chickens, which died just days before she was admitted to hospital.