Malign influences
More deaths from bird flu in Asia
THE first human deaths from avian influenza in Indonesia were announced on July 20th by the country's health minister, Siti Fadillah Supari. She said that three members of a family living on the outskirts of Jakarta had been killed in the past ten days. Human cases of bird flu in Indonesia have been reported since June, but these are the only known fatalities.
This article appeared in the Science & technology section of the print edition under the headline “Malign influences”
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