Deadly Bird Flu Snatched The 8th Indonasian Life
A 25-year-old Indonesian woman is suspected to have become the country’s eighth victim of bird flu, who died overnight on Tuesday in Jakarta.
Indonesia has 12 confirmed cases of H5N1 infection in people, seven of whom have died.
The H5N1 bird flu virus has ravaged poultry stocks across Asia since 2003, and jumped to humans killing at least 68, most of them in Vietnam and Thailand. 
So far, most human cases of the disease have been traced to contact with infected birds. But experts fear a human flu pandemic if the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus mutates into a form that passes easily between people.
Health experts are closely watching possible “clusters” of cases within families or neighbourhoods for signs that the virus is being passed between humans.
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As the number of human cases grow, hospitals are preparing for the possibility of a pandemic. But few countries’ health systems are likely to cope with a surge in flu patients.
Indonesian hospitals designated by the government to treat bird flu patients are struggling to get ready for a possible pandemic and face shortages of anti-viral drugs, ventilators and other equipment.
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Experts warn that with every case of human infection, there is a risk of the disease mutating or combining with human flu and becoming more easily transmissible.
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December 7th, 2005 at 1:11 am
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