Special report: Global fight against bird flu

    JAKARTA, Aug. 21 (Xinhua) -- A woman, 35, one of the four bird flu suspects in Garut, Indonesia's West Java province, was tested positive and eventually died.

    "Now three had been tested positive, and two had succumbed from the disease. The latest victim, the 35-year-old woman, had died," Antara news agency on Monday quoted Health Ministry's Disease Eradication and Environmental Health Director General I Nyoman Kandun as saying.

    The other bird flu suspects are a 20-year-old man, a girl, 13, and a boy, four, who had died before a sample of his blood taken for examination.

    Right now, he said Sunda evening, there are nine bird flu cases in Garut regency, one of them is a young man, 17, still alive, and a girl, nine, who had died.

    Two other patients respectively five and six years old, had been tested negative for the bird flu virus, and now still under treatment at the Hasan Sadikin general hospital in Bandung.

    Meanwhile, the Ministry of Health has yet to receive information on a woman patient, 32, suspected of infected with the virus.

    Bird flu cases in Indonesia had reached 61, 46 of whom had died.

    The latest patient who had been tested positive is a girl aged six years and 3 months, who is still under treatment at Sulianto Saroso hospital for infectious diseases in Jakarta. Enditem