JAKARTA, Nov. 13 (Chinese media) -- Indonesian Health Ministry on Thursday denied foreign reports that a 15-year-old girl from Central Java had died of avian influenza, saying two laboratory tests had showed her blood samples negative of H5N1.
The girl died on Friday in Karyadi Hospital in
Semarang city, 250 miles east of Jakarta after 10 days of medical treatment.
Denying several foreign reports that the girl had
been confirmed dead of bird flu, Health Minister Siti Padilah Sufari said: "Both
of the laboratory tests showed that she was negative of bird flu, so the total
death toll (of bird flu) remains 112."
A total of 137 people had been infected by bird flu
in Indonesia, making the country hardest hit by the deadly virus. The avian
influenza has killed so far 244 people in the world.
Indonesia has been striving to diminish the factors
that facilitate the spread of the bird flu virus, including big territory,
traditional way of rising chickens on back yard and lack of obedience of
provincial administration in implementing Jakarta's relevant
decisions.
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