Bird Flu Visits Bali
BALI has recorded its first human death from bird flu, with hundreds of birds being culled yesterday in a bid to contain a possible outbreak.
It is also suspected that the dead woman’s daughter died from the H5N1 virus earlier this month.
However, the child was buried before it was realised she could have fallen victim to the deadly virus.
Agriculture authorities yesterday destroyed 400 birds in a 1km radius of the village of Tukadaya in Jembrana regency, in northwestern Bali, where the victims lived, and will continue the operation today.
Indonesia’s National Bird Flu Control Committee confirmed that 29-year-old Ni Luh Putu Sri Windani, who died in Bali’s Sanglah hospital in Denpasar late on Sunday, was positive to bird flu.
[Source: The Daily Telegraph]
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