Two women and a man died in Asia by the deadly H5N1 form of bird flu, UN officials confirmed this. The Indonesian Health Ministry said the samples from the man who died with flu-like symptoms in Jakarta on Friday were also being sent for WHO laboratory confirmation.
The 20-year-old Chinese farmer died in Hunan province on February 4. It was the country’s eighth bird flu fatality, the WHO confirmed. Following the culling of poultry raised by her household, the victim developed symptoms.
Two women also died within hours of each other in the Indonesian town of Bekasi, east of Jakarta. Both had suffered from H5N1. The three deaths by the deadly H5N1 took the number of bird flu victims in the country to 18.
Via: The Guardian