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JAKARTA - The human death toll from bird flu in Indonesia rose to 56 after a 2-year-old boy who died Monday in a Jakarta hospital from the H5N1 virus, health officials said. In addition, the country also posted a new confirmed human bird flu case, with a 36-year-old woman who has been undergoing treatment for the virus at the same hospital since Friday, said Ningrun, an official at the Health Ministry's bird flu centre.
Indonesia now has had 74 confirmed cases and its 56 deaths are the highest in the world. Vietnam is second with 42 deaths but has not had one this year. Ilham Patu, an official at Jakarta's Sulianti Saroso Hospital, which has been designated to treat patients with suspected bird flu, said the boy died Monday morning after being admitted on Saturday.
Ningrum said the boy was from the Karawang, West Java province, while the woman lives in the province's Tanggerang district, just outside of Jakarta. 'Investigations are underway to find out whether the two have had contact with deceased fowl,' Ningrum told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa.
Most bird flu victims globally had direct or indirect contact with sick chickens, but scientists fear the virus could mutate into a form easily transmissible among humans, sparking a global pandemic that could kill millions. Indonesia had been criticized for its initial failure to aggressively attack the virus in poultry. But the government made great strides in recent weeks by vaccinating poultry and doing limited culls.
Government officials insist their efforts to combat the disease are on the right track, although they have admitted more needs to be done, in particular with surveillance of poultry farms to stop outbreaks, described as the key element to combating the virus.
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