JAKARTA: Indonesian researchers have found a strain of bird flu in pigs on the densely populated island of Java, raising fears the virus could more easily spread to humans in the country, the government and scientists said yesterday.
Dr C.A. Nidom, the scientist who made the discovery, identified the strain found in the pigs as H5N1, which has jumped from chickens to humans elsewhere in South-East Asia, killing 36 in Vietnam, 12 in Thailand and four from Cambodia.
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