A 22-year-old Indonesian man who was infected with the bird flu virus has died in hospital.
A spokesman at the Sulianti Saroso hospital said the man, who sold chickens, died at 7am Irish time today. Most of Indonesia’s bird flu patients are being treated at the Sulianti Saroso hospital.
A Hong Kong laboratory affiliated to the World Health Organisation is to carry out tests to see if the man died from the H5N1 strain of bird flu. Local tests have already indicated that the man had the H5N1 strain.
Around 80 people have died from the H5N1 strain of bird flu since 2003.
