Sleeping With Chickens

Cluster cases of avian flu are spreading. The latest victims were siblings in Indramayu.

January 31, 2006

STILL feeling sleepy, Nurip, 30, was sitting on a mat. His arms hugged both his legs. Although he had just woken from his afternoon sleep, his face remained dull. Nurip had not been able to sleep well for the past two weeks.

He had to spend the night in Hasan Sadikin Hospital, Bandung. There, the family of his elder sister, Bainah, was undergoing intensive care.

Kadis, his brother-in-law, and Iin Indriati, his niece, were suspected of contracting

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