Three Indonesian children were admitted to the hospital on
alleged bird flu symptoms and reports of many dead chickens in
their neighborhood, local press said Tuesday.
The three children, aged 6 months, 5 years and 13 years old,
live in the West Java town of Garut, one of the areas put under the
government's highest bird flu alert.
They were admitted to the Garut Hospital early Tuesday morning
with high fever and respiratory problems.
"The three are suspected of having bird flu virus and I received
reports that many chickens have died in their village," the
hospital's medical service head Slamet Yanto Widiantoro was quoted
by leading news website as saying.
Indonesia has confirmed 120 human bird flu cases with death toll
reaching 97, the highest than any other affected countries in the
world.
(Xinhua News Agency January 22, 2008)