The human death toll from bird flu in Indonesia rose to 54, the highest in the world, after an elderly woman who died overnight in a West Java hospital tested positive for the H5N1 virus.

Indonesia, the world’s fourth most populous nation, leads Vietnam, which has recorded 42 deaths from avian influenza.

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