Indonesia reports 97th bird flu death

JAKARTA, Jan. 18 (Xinhua) -- A 8-year-old Indonesian boy died of bird flu on Friday, putting the total fatalities to 97 out of 119 cases in the hardest-hit country, the health ministry said.

The boy from Tangerang, an outskirt city of Jakarta, was admitted to bird flu-designed hospital of Persahabatan in East Jakarta on Thursday after he had symptoms of fever and cough since Jan. 7, an official of bird flu center of the ministry Sunan Raja said.

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