Jakarta: A health ministry representative said that an Indonesian man from Riau region on Sumatra Island has died of bird flu.
The recent death takes the country’s death toll from the bird flu ailment to 91.
Lili Sulistyowati, health ministry spokeswoman said that it was not clear if the 31-year-old man who passed away on Tuesday had been in contact with ailing fowl, which is the most usual way of getting the infection.
Another representative at the government department’s bird flu centre told that the man, who had been suffering from coughing, fever and breathing troubles, expired while being shifted from a local hospital in Duri region to a hospital in Pekanbaru.
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