March 10, 2006
BBC.co.uk

Bird flu kills Indonesia children

Two Indonesian children have become the latest victims of bird flu, raising the country's death toll to 22. The World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed that a 12-year-old girl and a three-year-old boy had died from the H5N1 virus, the health ministry said. The girl died in the town of Solo and the boy at a hospital in Semarang, both in Central Java province. Both children were said to have been in contact with sick chickens before they became ill.