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14.11, bird flu

Indonesia: a two-and-a-half year-old Indonesian boy died of bird flu, taking the country’s human death toll from the virus to 56, according to the country’s health ministry. The boy, from Karawang regency in West Java province, had contact with fowl, the most common method of transmission of the virus. The ministry also said that a 35-year-old woman from a different part of West Java was also being treated for bird flu in a Jakarta hospital, but it was not clear if she had any contact with fowl. The two are not related. The number of provinces in Indonesia where bird flu is endemic has nearly halved in the last six months, although all areas on heavily populated Java island remain affected.