Another Bird flu death reported in Indonesia, health ministry denies.

Jakarta, December 10: Two-year old girl child from east Jakarta died from bird flu, confirmed a World Health Organization report. The little girl child died in the end of the November. The agency confirmed that she had tested positive for bird flu considering her symptoms.

However, the Indonesian Health Ministry has denied that the bird flu was the only reason behind girl’s death. According to them two laboratory reports confirmed that her blood samples tested negative for virus H5N1. They are also not ready to accept the foreign reports, which confirmed that bird she tested positive for bird flu.

Indonesia is the leading country in bird flu cases, as the death incidence in the country count to half of the world’s total bird flu deaths. This virus started affecting poultry stocks since 2003 and killed around 224 people worldwide, of those 112 people had died in Indonesia.

Health Minister of Indonesia Siti Padilah Sufari tried to maintain, "Both of the laboratory tests showed that she was negative of bird flu, so the total death toll (of bird flu) remains 112."

The experts fear that the virus may develop into form that is more dangerous and spread through people killing millions of them around the world.

A WHO bird-flu handbook says, “It is impossible to predict how lethal the pandemic strain might be. 'Modeling research using today's global population has projected that at minimum between 2 [million] and 7.4 million people might die”.

Since 2003, at least 71 people died from virus H5N1 in Asia. Other countries that reported deaths are Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia, Cambodia and China.

Indonesia is now taking strong steps to prevent the spread of bird flu viruses.