JAKARTA - A man from Sumatra, western Indonesia, has died from bird flu, bringing the total death toll to 91 in Indonesia alone, told a top official from the Health Ministry on Saturday. The 31-year-old died yesterday after arriving at a government hospital in Pekanbaru, told Nyoman Kandun, the director general of communicable disease control at the Health Ministry.
Kandun said that investigators were trying to determine the source of the virus. Almost all human cases so far have been traced to contact with infected birds. Indonesia has recorded regular deaths from bird flu since the virus began ravaging poultry stocks across Asia in 2003.
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JAKARTA - A man from Sumatra, western Indonesia, has died from bird flu, bringing the total death toll to 91 in Indonesia alone, told a top official from the Health Ministry on Saturday. The 31-year-old died yesterday after arriving at a government hospital in Pekanbaru, told Nyoman Kandun, the director general of communicable disease control at the Health Ministry.
