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JAKARTA- A 29-year-old Indonesian woman died of bird flu at the weekend on the tourist resort island of Bali, the first human death there and the nation's 82nd confirmed death, a health official said.
The woman's 5-year-old daughter also died recently after playing with chickens but it was unclear if the girl died of bird flu.
The woman, from a village in the district of Jembrana in western Bali, was suffering from a high fever before dying of multiple organ failure from the H5N1 virus, said a doctor at the Sanglah hospital in Denpasar.
Health official Joko Suyono said there had been sick chickens around the woman's house and many had died suddenly in recent weeks.
"The villagers didn't burn the carcasses. Instead they buried them or fed them to pigs," he said.
Bird flu is endemic in bird populations in most parts of Indonesia.
- Reuters
