Flu kills 6 year old in Indonesia
January 27th, 2007
Indonesia has announced that a 6 year old is the latest person to fall victim to the bird flu virus in the Asian country. That brings the number of human cases recorded in the country this month to five. Regular outbreaks of H5N1 are reported in countries such as China, Egypt, Indonesia and Thailand, places where humans have always lived near domestic animals and where poultry is raised on a large scale in backyards. 269 people from 10 countries have been known to be infected with the virus since it was first discovered in 2003.