Indonesia reports 47th death from bird flu

JAKARTA, Sept 7 (Reuters) - A 14-year-old Indonesian girl who died in June was infected with bird flu, health officials said on Thursday.
The case took a long time to identify because it was from blood samples taken during routine surveillance of people with mild influenza symptoms.
Health Minister Siti Fadilah Supari said tests on the girl's blood sample were completed late on Wednesday.
"It turned out positive," Supari told reporters, adding chickens had died in the neighbourhood where she lived in Makassar, the capital of South Sulawesi province. Makassar is 1,400 km (870 miles) northeast of the capital Jakarta.
The fatality takes Indonesia's confirmed death toll from bird flu to 47, the highest in the world.

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