Hariadi Wibisono said 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.
That would raise the number of deaths from H5N1 avian influenza to 69, out of 133 people known to have been infected.
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