Thursday August 10th 2006, 7:48 pm
Pet pigeons kept inside the home may be the cause of bird flu infection for a 17-year-old girl in Jakarta, Indonesia, who died on August 8, according to a report issued by Indonesia’s Ministry of Health and confirmed by the World Health Organization. The young woman’s case is the 44th human death from avian influenza in Indonesia, and comes just one day after a 16-year-old boy died of the
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Indonesia Confirms Second Human Bird Flu Death in Days (U.S. Department of State)