An Indonesian teenager has died of bird flu, bringing the country's total number of human deaths from the H5N1 strain of the virus to 73, the world's highest, a health official said Friday. The 15-year-old girl was from Central Jakarta and died late Thursday, after she had undergone four days treatment at the Jakarta's Sulianti Saroso Hospital, which is designated to treat bird-flu patients, said Joko of the Health Ministry's bird-flu centre. "She died from bird flu," Joko, who like many Indonesian goes by only one name, told Deutsche Presse-Agentur (DPA). Her death brings the toll from the H5N1 virus in Indonesia to 73 deaths from 93 human cases, the highest in the world in bird-flu deaths. Vietnam is second with 42 deaths but has not had a human death from the virus in more than a year.
