JAKARTA (Reuters) - An Indonesian woman who died in October had bird flu, bringing total deaths from the disease in the world's fourth most populous country to five, a senior Health Ministry official said on Saturday.
Hariadi Wibisono told Reuters the woman's nephew, who was being treated in a Jakarta hospital, had also tested positive for the disease, taking the number of confirmed Indonesian cases to nine. The tests were done by a Hong Kong laboratory.
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