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Indonesian woman dies of bird flu in Bali (2) |
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20:45, August 22, 2007 |
The woman initially had the germs of the disease on Aug. 14, and then she went to hospital at Tabanan four days later, said Ningrum.
She had been shifted to the provincial hospital of Sanglah on Monday before she died on Tuesday, the official said.
As the number of victims of the virus keeps slowly rising in the country, the health authorities have decided to use the country''s own anti-bird flu vaccine after September to stop the virus spread to human, despite the World Health Organization suggestion to stockpile the vaccines.
Huge territory, traditional way of rising chickens on back yard and lack of obedience of provincial administration in implementing the Jakarta decision to stop the virus spread, are among the obstacles in fighting the bird flu in the country.
Experts fear that millions of people could die should the highly pathogenic H5N1 virus mutate into a certain level that can make it transmittable among humans.
Source: Xinhua
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