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Bird flu toll 49 in Indonesia

JAKARTA: The World Health Organisation (WHO) has confirmed 49 deaths out of 65 cases of avian influenza in Indonesia, the organisation spokesperson in Jakarta said on Thursday. The death figure rose after the international organisation revised the definition of confirmation for the case on August 29, spokesperson Sari Setiogi said. ``The revision has made three probable cases included in the confirmed category,'' she told Xinhua here. The three new cases were an 8-year-old girl who died in June last year on the outskirts of Jakarta, a 45-year-old man from central Java province, who survived, and a 5-year-old boy in Jakarta's suburbs, who died in March. — Xinhua

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