Indonesia report 87th death

Another person has died from bird flu in Indonesia, officials have reported.

A 44-year-old woman has died on the Indonesian island of Sumatra after buying chickens from a market in Pekanbaru city.

The latest fatality brings the country's bird flu death toll up to 87, after health ministry officials said that blood tests had revealed the deadly H5N1 strain of the virus.

Indonesia has recorded a total of 108 cases of the virus to date.

Last Monday (October 1st) officials said that a 21-year-old man from Jakarta had died at a hospital in the west of the capital city.

China confirmed last month that there had been an outbreak of bird flu among ducks in the south of the country but reported that they had brought the outbreak under control after a mass cull of poultry in the Panyu district near Hong Kong.

More than 180 people have died from the H5N1 virus since it emerged in South East Asia in late 2003.

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