JAKARTA (XFN-ASIA) - Indonesia today confirmed its 40th death from bird flu after tests by a WHO-affiliated laboratory showed a five-year-old boy had died of the virus, a health ministry official said.
'Results from tests on a five-year-old boy from Tulungagung, East Java, have been confirmed by the WHO-affiliated laboratory in Hong Kong,' senior health ministry official Hariyadi Wibisono told Agence France-Presse.
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