JAKARTA (Reuters) - An eight-year-old Indonesian boy has died from the H5N1 strain of bird flu according to local tests, a Health Ministry official said on Monday.
Hariadi Wibisono, who heads a department charged with eradicating animal-borne diseases, said the boy's results had yet to be confirmed by a Hong Kong laboratory affiliated with the World Health Organisation.
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