25.04.2012

An eight-year-old boy died from avian influenza in a Bali hospital on Tuesday (24/4) night.
The boy, Ni Putu Purnami, was in critical condition when he was transferred from Bangli Hospital to Sanglah Hospital on Tuesday afternoon and he was immediately isolated.
Clinically, and supported by the VCR (Visual Convention Reaction) laboratory result, the victim was positively infected with the H5N1 virus.
Putu died at 10:15 p.m. after four hours at the hospital.