IN August 2007, a 29-year-old woman died in Bali after suffering from a high fever in Sanglah Hospital in Denpasar. Her 5-year-old daughter had died one week earlier without undergoing any medical test. That woman, who was a resident of Tukad village in Jembrana regency, some 105 kilometers from Denpasar, later became the icon of the protracted pandemic: she was the first identified victim of avian influenza in Indonesia.

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