Two women have died of avian influenza, bringing the total fatalities of the disease to 110, spokesperson of the country's health ministry Lily Sriwahyuni said here Thursday.
A 15-year-old woman from Jakarta and another 34-year-old woman from Tanggerang town, an outskirt city of Jakarta, died of the disease in May, Sriwahyuni told Xinhua.
However, she did not elaborate.
The deaths were the first cases since Indonesian Health Minister Siti Fadillah Supari said two weeks ago that the ministry had changed its policy on reporting human cases, and would only announce the death toll every six months.
But, the spokesperson said that the ministry would report the case once in a month.
Source: Xinhua
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