NEWS ITEM
Structure: Newsworthy event – Background events – Sources
Geneva (AP): Indonesia has recorded another human case of the H5N1 strain of bird flu, raising its world-leading total to 117 cases, according to the World Health Organization.
The agency said Friday night that the Indonesian Health Ministry had reported that a 16-year old girl from West Java Province has been hospitalized since Jan. 4 with symptoms of the disease. It said the strain had been confirmed as H5N1.
Of the total number of human cases in Indonesia, 94 have been fatal. WHO says that globally 349 people have been infected with H5N1 since the 2003 outbreak of the break. Of those, 216 have died.
After Indonesia the country with the next highest number of cases is Vietnam with 101, followed by Egypt with 43, according to the U.N. health agency.
(Adapted from The Jakarta Post, January 15, 2008)
Additional: Newsworthy Events (paragraph 1) - Background Events (paragraph 2 & 3) - Sources (paragraph 4)
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