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JAKARTA - A 29-year-old Indonesian woman from Tangerang, west Jakarta, has died of bird flu while another 38 year-old woman from West Jakarta has been infected by the virus. This puts the total death to 103 out of 126 contracted people, Health Ministry said here Monday. "All of their laboratory tests showed that all the women were positively infected by the lethal disease," said Lili Sriwahyuni Sulistyowati, head of information center of the ministry.
"All their laboratories tests were positive on Sunday afternoon," she said. Both persons had historical contact with fowl. The 29-year-old woman who died on Saturday fell ill at January 22 with the symptoms of cough, fever and respiratory problems. On January 28 she was admitted to a hospital in Tangerang and one day later she was shifted to the bird-flu designed hospital of Persahabatan in East Jakarta, the official said.
Another woman from West Jakarta, who is being treated at Persahabatan hospital in East Jakarta, first suffered from the disease at January 24 with the symptoms of cough, fever, influenza and throat problems. On January 26 she was treated at a hospital in of Usada Insani and at February 1 she was shifted to the Persahabatan hospital, the official said.
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