An eight-year-old girl from Karawang, West Java died from a human infection of H5N1 avian influenza according to the Indonesia Ministry of Health (MoH).
According to a Jakarta Globe report Thursday, The girl, identified as “K.K,” lived near the Karawang market. Tjandra Yoga Aditama, director general of disease control and environmental health at the Health Ministry said on June 12, K.K. carried a clutch of freshly killed chickens home from the market with her father.
The child became ill about a week later while in Singapore where she was diagnosed with laryngitis. Upon returning to Indonesia, her condition worsened and she was transferred several Jakarta hospitals and eventually placed on a ventilator in intensive care. Full story
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