Indonesia, the hardest-hit country by bird flu, offered Japan on Monday to cooperate in producing anti-bird flu vaccine developed from the strain of H5N1 virus in Indonesia.
Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono made the statement during a joint press conference with Japanese Prime Minister Shizo Abe after meeting at the State Palace here.
The president said that they had agreed to join hand in fighting the globally spread disease of avian influenza that has killed 319 people in the world.
"We have agreed to collaborate in combating bird flu," said President Susilo.
"I have offered Prime Minister Abe a bilateral cooperation for developing vaccine from the strain of virus in Indonesia," he said.
Prime Minister Abe said that Japan had decided to provide 1.7 billion yen (some 14.8 million U.S. dollars) to help Indonesia to fight the spread of the lethal virus.
The number of victims of the virus has kept slowly rising in Indonesia, with death toll of 83 out of 104 cases.
Source: Xinhua
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