An eight-year-old boy has been declared positive of avian influenza in Indonesia.
The new avian influenza patient was identified as Ilham Junaidi, whose elder sister died (Ina Solati) of avian influenza last week.
19-year-old Ina, who had many birds in her house, died on Oct. 28 after several days of treatment at another hospital in the Jakarta suburb of Tangerang. The hospital believed Ilham and Ina contracted the virus from the birds.
Patu said his hospital had received results of a laboratory test at the World Health Organization-sanctioned laboratory in Hong Kong, which confirmed that Ilham had avian influenza.
According to WHO, Ina and Ilham were the eighth and ninth avian influenza patients in Indonesia with seven in Greater Jakarta. Five have died since July, while the condition of the other four are improving.