An Indonesian man of 31 years old has died on avian influenza, the country's health ministry said here Saturday.
The man, from Riau province in Sumatra Island, died on Tuesday after three days treatment in a hospital. Laboratory tests indicated that he was contracted by H5N1 virus, said Djoko Suyono, official of the anti-bird flu centre of the ministry.
"He died on November 6. Two of laboratory tests showed that he is positive of bird flu," he told Xinhua.
The man died when he was shifting from a hospital in a regency to another one at the provincial capital of Pekanbaru, said Suyono.
He begun to have the symptoms of the disease three days before he went to the hospital, said Suyono.
The confirmation brought the death toll of the virus to 91 out of 113 cases in the bird flu hardest-hit country, he said.
It was not clear yet whether the man had historical contacts with fowls as authorities had been investigating to his residence, said Suyono.
Indonesia has been at the front row in struggling to combat the spreading of highly pathogenic H5N1 viruses.
Despite the country has culled millions of chickens and pigs, the virus now is still endemic in poultry across the world's fourth most populous country.
Source: Xinhua
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