A 17-year-old teenager in Indonesia's West Lombok is confirmed to have died from bird flu, bringing this year's death toll from the virus to six. The Health Ministry said in Jakarta on Monday that the boy, identified only as D., had tested positive for the H5N1 virus at the ministry's laboratory, according to (Jakarta Globe). "The test result from our laboratory has confirmed he died from the virus," said Tjandra Yoga Aditama, the ministry's director general for disease control and environmental health. Indonesia is the country hardest hit by bird flu. Before the latest death, Indonesia had 155 fatalities from 186 confirmed cases since 2005, according to the World Health Organization.
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