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2005-07-24 HKT 14:28
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Indonesia will today slaughter
some 200 pigs infected by bird
flu. An agriculture ministry
spokesman said the pigs were
in a village, 30-kilometres
from Jakarta. It's close to
the home town of the country's
first birdflu victims - three
members of the same family who
died earlier this month.
Officials have said there's no
concrete evidence of contact
between the victims and the
farm animals. They also said
laboratory tests showed the
strain was not a new mutation
allowing the disease to be
passed between humans.
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