A 15-year-old boy and a 12-year-old girl have died of bird flu in recent days in Indonesia, bringing the total death toll from the H5N1 strain to 107, the Health Ministry said in a statement here Monday.
The boy from the West Java town of Subang died on March 26, the same day he arrived at the Hasan Sadikin Hospital in the provincial capital of Bandung, after about a week of treatment at a smaller hospital in Subang.
A day later, a girl from the Jakarta suburb of Bekasi died at the Persahabatan Hospital, which is among major hospitals to become the center of treatment for bird flu patients.
Indonesia has so far confirmed 132 bird flu cases in human with107 deaths, becoming the worst affected country.
Source:Xinhua
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