Bird Flu Victim Likely Was Exposed to Sick Fowl

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JAKARTA, Indonesia The first person infected in a cluster of bird flu cases in a family in Indonesia may have come into contact with sick or dead chickens before possibly passing the virus on to relatives, a World Health Organization official said Thursday.

The woman grew vegetables and sold them in a market, which may have brought her into contact with infected poultry, said Steven Bjorge, a WHO epidemiologist in Jakarta. Investigators also haven't ruled out contamination from chicken feces that the woman used as garden fertilizer, he said.

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Bird Flu Victim Likely Was Exposed to Sick Fowl

Officials have not linked her family members to any possib...

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