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Bird flu kills 8-year-old Indonesian girl
The Canadian Press
June 2, 2006

An eight-year-old girl has died of bird flu, a health official said Friday citing local tests, as a spike in human cases put Indonesia on pace to soon become the world's hardest-hit country.

The World Health Organization has yet to confirm the death, which would bring the country's toll from the H5N1 virus to 37. The girl, from a city on the outskirts of Jakarta, died late Thursday apparently after coming into contact with sick poultry, said Nyoman Kandun, a senior Health Ministry official.

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