JAKARTA, March 31 (Xinhua) -- A 15-year-old boy and a
12-year-old girl have died of bird flu in recent days in Indonesia, bringing the
total death toll from the H5N1 strain to 107, the Health Ministry said in a
statement here Monday.
The boy from the West Java town of Subang died on
March 26, the same day he arrived at the Hasan Sadikin Hospital in the
provincial capital of Bandung, after about a week of treatment at a smaller
hospital in Subang.
A day later, a girl from the Jakarta suburb of Bekasi
died at the Persahabatan Hospital, which is among major hospitals to become the
center of treatment for bird flu patients.
Indonesia has so far confirmed 132 bird flu cases in human
with 107 deaths, becoming the worst affected country. ¡¡