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Good news, apparently, from Bali. The 2 year-old neighbor of the mother and child who died from the H5N1 virus over the past week, suspected of bird flu, has been cleared by testing.
Ailing Balinese infant cleared of bird flu
Article from: Agence France-Presse
From correspondents in Jakarta
August 15, 2007 01:37pm
A TWO-year-old girl on the Indonesian resort island of Bali has been cleared of carrying the deadly bird flu virus, which killed at least one of her neighbours, an official said today.
"We received the test results last night showing that the girl, two years old, is negative for the bird flu virus," said Ningrum, a doctor from the national bird flu information centre in Jakarta.
Indonesia confirmed its first human bird flu death on Bali on Monday, taking the nation's overall toll to more than 80 and raising fears of an impact on tourism, the economic lifeline of the island.
The 29-year-old woman died at the weekend. Her five-year-old daughter died on August 3 suffering flu-like symptoms and her body was cremated before samples were taken for testing, but officials said it could be "assumed" she died due to the virus.
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