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Very little detail, beyond the victim's age and gender. A 29-year old woman, hospitalized for a week, has died from bird flu in Jakarta.
Additionally, the Health Ministry announced that a new patient, a 38-year old woman from Western Jakarta, has tested positive and is on a ventilator.
Jakarta remains a hot spot for human infections with H5N1. This is at least the 8th death this year from the virus, all from in and around their capital city. There have been other suspected deaths from bird flu this year in Indonesia, but so far, none of them have tested positive.
This from Reuters.
Indonesian woman dies of bird flu - health ministry
Mon 4 Feb 2008, 10:07 GMT
JAKARTA, Feb 4 (Reuters) - A 29-year old Indonesian woman has died of bird flu, bringing the death toll from the virus in the Southeast Asian country to 103, the health ministry said on Monday.
The woman, from Tangerang, west of the Indonesian capital Jakarta, died on Saturday after being treated at the city's Persahabatan hospital for about a week, ministry spokeswoman Lily Sulistyowati said in a statement.
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The ministry also said that a 38-year-old woman from western Jakarta had tested positive for bird flu. She was being treated at Persahabatan and had been put on a ventilator, the statement said.
Her case brought the number of bird flu cases in the country to 126. Of these, 103 people have died, making Indonesia the country with the highest death toll from the disease.
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