Indonesian woman dies of bird flu - official

JAKARTA, Indonesia, Jan 12: A 37-year-old Indonesian woman has died of bird flu, taking the country's human death toll to 59, a hospital official said today.

The woman, from Serpong town in western Java, had been diagnosed as positive for the virus earlier this week.

''The woman died yesterday at 7.35 pm (1805 hrs IST) because of organs malfunction which is caused by (bird flu) virus H5N1,'' Dr Muchtar Ichsan, chief of bird flu management at Persahabatan Hospital, told Reuters.

Reuters