Indonesian dies from bird flu

The death of an Indonesian woman (35) from bird flu has brought the country's human death toll from the virus to 57.

The death of an Indonesian woman (35) from bird flu has brought the country's human death toll from the virus to 57.

The woman from West Java had been undergoing treatment in a Jakarta hospital since early November.

The development comes after South Korea confirmed a second case of highly pathogenic bird flu at a poultry farm. It had announced on Saturday it had its first outbreak in three years of the H5N1 strain.

The agriculture ministry said the strain killed about 200 chickens at a farm, three kilometres from where the first outbreak of the H5N1 strain was found at a poultry farm.