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Barbecue turns to tragedy for Indonesian family
Reuters
June 7, 2006

The large Indonesian family in a remote village of north Sumatra spent over a week in April fattening up a pig and some chickens for a barbecue. They had no idea of the tragedy that would follow their joyous gathering.


After the feast, eight relatives of Boni Karo-Karo spent the night in a tiny room where she lay very ill and coughing heavily.


Boni died on May 4, and around the time that she passed away, six of her relatives began displaying the same symptoms that she suffered -- symptoms typical of the H5N1 bird flu.

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