Farm Worker Is Country's First Human Infected by Virus
By Alan Sipress
Washingotn Post Foreign Service
Wednesday, June 15, 2005; 8:54 AM
JAKARTA, Indonesia, June 15 -- A farm worker in eastern Indonesia has tested positive for bird flu, marking the country's first human case of the virus that has already killed at least 54 people elsewhere in Southeast Asia, health officials in Indonesia said Wednesday.
The worker from southern Sulawesi island is healthy and currently shows no symptoms of the illness but two tests at a Hong Kong laboratory confirmed that he had been infected by avian influenza, health officials said.
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Washingotn Post Foreign Service
Wednesday, June 15, 2005; 8:54 AM
JAKARTA, Indonesia, June 15 -- A farm worker in eastern Indonesia has tested positive for bird flu, marking the country's first human case of the virus that has already killed at least 54 people elsewhere in Southeast Asia, health officials in Indonesia said Wednesday.
The worker from southern Sulawesi island is healthy and currently shows no symptoms of the illness but two tests at a Hong Kong laboratory confirmed that he had been infected by avian influenza, health officials said.
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