A 28-year-old Indonesian woman living on the outskirt city of Jakarta died on bird flu on Monday, the country's health ministry said on Tuesday.
Laboratories tests indicated that the woman from Tanggerang city was positively infected by avian influenza, an official of the anti-bird flu center of the ministry Djoko Suyono said.
The woman was dead after two days treated in a bird flu-designed hospital of persahabatan in East Jakarta, said Suyono.
"She died on Monday, two of her laboratory tests showed that she was positive of H5N1," he told Xinhua.
The official said that the woman was the seller of ornamental plants, had historical contact with feces of fowl.
"She mixed organic fertilizer made feces of chickens with others material for media of plant," said Suyono.
Moreover, she did the work near traditional chicken farms, he said.
Contact with chicken has been a common cause of avian influenza fatality in the huge archipelago country that exercise mostly back-yard cantered farm.
The woman begun sick first and went to the Sari Asih hospital in Tanggerang on Dec. 4, said Suyono. Four days later she was transferred to the hospital in East Jakarta, he said.
The fatality has put the total death to 92 out of 114 cases in Indonesia, said Suyono.
Indonesia has been at the front row in fighting the spreading of highly pathogenic H5N1 viruses, which have slowly and persistently spread on human.
Although the country has culled millions of chickens and pigs, the viruses are now still endemic in the country.
Source: Xinhua
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