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Updated Friday, November 14, 2008 9:57 am TWN, Reuters

Indonesia to test 17 for bird flu in Sulawesi

JAKARTA -- Seventeen people from the same neighbourhood in the Indonesian city of Makassar in South Sulawesi are due to be tested for bird flu after falling sick, a health ministry official said on Thursday. Chandra Yoga Adhitama, acting director-general of communicable disease control, said the group had been hospitalised after chickens in the surrounding area suddenly died.

“Some were hospitalised yesterday and some today. I think it is a precaution by our officials after chickens died there,” Adhitama said. He described the general health condition of the 17 as good and said that blood samples had been taken and would be sent to the health ministry laboratory in Jakarta for testing.

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