Hariadi Wibisono told Reuters the results on the 25-year-old woman, who died earlier this week, made her Indonesia's eighth confirmed death from the H5N1 strain of bird flu.
"We got the result this morning. She was positive," said Wibisono, who heads a department charged with eradicating animal-borne diseases.
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