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Indonesian Woman Dies From Bird Flu; S Korea Announces Culling Plans
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http://enews.voanews.com/t?ctl=15E2F7F:A6F02AD83191E160406437EDF2D997AF9574F7DCC14957C0 South Korean
officials announces plans to slaughter hundreds of thousands of
poultry to contain disease Indonesia's Health Ministry announced
Saturday the death of another woman from Avian influenza, raising the
country's death toll to 62.  Meanwhile, South Korean officials are
planning to slaughter hundreds of thousands of poultry to contain
their own bird flu outbreak.  VOA's Sean Maroney reports from
Washington.







Indonesian health officials vaccinate poultry against bird flu, 17
Jan. 2007

Health officials in Indonesia say another woman has died from bird
flu, the fifth fatality in the country within the last two weeks.

Indonesia's Health Ministry announced that the 19-year-old victim died
Friday after being hospitalized in the West Java town of Garut.  Four
other people died earlier in the month in the capital city of Jakarta.

On Friday, health officials began a campaign to clear several
provinces of backyard chickens common to residential areas and
downtown markets.

Jakarta's governor gave city residents two weeks to either sell or
give up their birds in an attempt to curb the virus' spread.

Meanwhile, South Korean officials are set to cull more than a quarter
of a million birds after a bird flu outbreak earlier in the week at a
chicken farm in Cheonan.Veterinary official Kim Chang-seob says the
virus found is the same strain as South Korea's other recent
outbreaks.

This is the country's fifth outbreak since last November.

South Korean officials will decide Sunday whether to kill nearly
400,000 other birds within a 10-kilometer radius of the latest
outbreak.

Bird flu remains difficult for humans to catch.  However,
international experts fear the virus could mutate into a form that
could spread easily among humans. 

Bird flu has killed more than 150 people worldwide since 2003. 




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