BEIJING (Reuters) - Indonesia announced two more deaths from H5N1 bird flu on Thursday and China said a teenage boy had also died from the virus, which has now spread to more than 50 countries and raised fears of a pandemic.
The Indonesian Health Ministry said a 14-year-old boy and a 28-year-old woman had died, bringing the country's confirmed human death toll from the H5N1 virus to 71, the highest in the world. Indonesia announced three deaths on Wednesday.
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