Several more cases of Bird Flu:
The World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed Thursday that two more people in Indonesia have died of bird flu, bringing the total fatalities in the country to seven, while China confirmed its first death.
The two Indonesian victims were a 16-year-old girl and a 20-year-old woman, both Jakarta residents, said Sari Setiogi, WHO spokeswoman. The girl, whose father has numerous birds as pets, died November 8 and the woman, who had visited her grandmother who raises chickens in Central Java, died Saturday, Setiogi said.
The worldwide deaths now confirmed by WHO since late 2003 – all in Asia – are 67, providing a fatality rate of more than 50 per cent out of the 130 people who have contracted the virus.
And, right on time, Bird Flu Humor from Martin Roth.