An Indonesian boy died from bird flu in the capital on Saturday, bringing the country's death toll from the virus to 88, the Health Ministry said. The 12-year-old junior high school student from Tangerang, on Jakarta's southwestern outskirts, died after being treated for five days at Persahabatan Hospital _ a designed bird-flu hospital in Jakarta _ said Daswir Nurdin of the ministry's bird flu center. «He was reported to have (had) contact with dead chickens close to his school,» Nurdin said, adding that the boy first developed breathing problems and a fever on September 30 and initially visited a local clinic. The boy was brought to Persahabatan on Tuesday, Nurdin said. «His death raised Indonesia's death toll of bird flu to 88» deaths out of 109 cases, he was quoted as saying by the Associated Press.
