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Updated Friday, September 12, 2008 0:00 am TWN, Reuters

Indonesian man dies of bird flu, brings toll to 112

JAKARTA -- An Indonesian man from Tangerang, a satellite town near the capital Jakarta, has died of bird flu, bringing the country’s death toll from the disease to 112, a Health Ministry official said on Thursday. The official, who declined to be named, said the 37-year-old man had worked as a driver for a cargo company at Sukarno-Hatta airport, Jakarta’s main airport for domestic and international flights. The man, who had had no contact with sick fowl, died in early July, after being treated at three different hospitals, the official said. Tests had showed he was infected with the H5N1 strain of avian influenza.

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