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Exactly how this report fits in with the earlier reports of the 14 year-old-boy who tested positive for the H5N1 virus and the six other suspected avian flu victims is unclear at this time. This person may be one of the six previously mentioned, or may not.
Trying to make sense of these scattered reports is frustrating work, and it may be several days before we know what is really going on here.
Indonesian woman with bird flu in critical condition
JAKARTA, Indonesia: An Indonesian woman was in critical condition Monday after being hospitalized with bird flu, a health official said. It was unclear how she contracted the virus.
The 37-year-old is the second person to be sickened by the disease in less than a week, said I Nyoman Kandun, the Ministry of Health's director general of communicable disease control.
The other was a 14-year-old boy, Kandun said, adding that both are from the industrial city of Tangerang on the western outskirts of the capital, Jakarta, and are being treated at the Persahabatan hospital.
The woman hospitalized Monday, identified only as Ria, "is now in critical condition," said Kandun.
"We are still trying to track down the source of infection," he said.
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