23.03.2011

Indonesia's health ministry has announced another H5N1 avian influenza infection, in a 22-month-old girl from Bekasi, West Java province, who is recovering, according to a report from Bird Flu Information Corner, a Web message board operated by Kobe University in Japan and Airlangga University in Indonesia. The girl got sick on Mar 2, was treated at an avian flu specialty hospital in East Jakarta, and has been released. The case’s mother died of confirmed avian influenza A(H5N1) virus infection one day prior to onset of illness in the new case.
The child accompanied her mother to the traditional market where live poultry were sold but investigations into the source of infection are ongoing.