JAKARTA (Reuters) - Walking through a squatter village just behind a stretch of gleaming office buildings in the heart of Jakarta, I steer clear of a handful of backyard chickens that strut around me.
Bird flu has killed almost 40 people in Indonesia. While no one has been infected in the small district of Karet Tengsin and there have not been any outbreaks of the disease in poultry in this area of the Indonesian capital, one cannot be too careful.
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