Jakarta - The death toll from bird flu in Indonesia has risen to 112 after a 19-year-old man died from the virus last week, a health ministry official said on Monday.
Contagious Diseases section chief section I Nyoman Kandun confirmed that the man had died in hospital in the Jakarta satellite city of Tangerang.
He said 112 people had died in Indonesia, the country worst-hit by the virus, out of 137 positive cases.
Health Minister Siti Fadilah Supari earlier in 2007 closed a 24-hour information centre on bird flu outbreaks and stopped providing regular updates of the death toll, saying it was unnecessary.
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Experts fear that the virus, which is usually spread directly from a bird to a human, could mutate into a form easily transmissible between people, sparking a deadly global pandemic.
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