Flu kills every 2.5 days in Indonesia
June 1, 2006 - 12:30PM
Indonesia averaged one human bird flu death every 2 1/2 days in May and will soon surpass Vietnam as the country hardest-hit by the disease.
The latest death, announced on Wednesday, was a 15-year-old boy whose preliminary tests were positive for the H5N1 virus.
It comes as international health officials express growing frustration that they must fight Indonesia's stifling bureaucracy as well as the disease.
Indonesia, a massive archipelago of 17,000 islands that is home to 220 million people, has a patchwork of local, regional and national bureaucracies that often send mixed messages, officials said.
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Indonesia averaged one human bird flu death every 2 1/2 days in May and will soon surpass Vietnam as the country hardest-hit by the disease.
The latest death, announced on Wednesday, was a 15-year-old boy whose preliminary tests were positive for the H5N1 virus.
It comes as international health officials express growing frustration that they must fight Indonesia's stifling bureaucracy as well as the disease.
Indonesia, a massive archipelago of 17,000 islands that is home to 220 million people, has a patchwork of local, regional and national bureaucracies that often send mixed messages, officials said.
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