Indonesia on high alert after two children hospitalised for bird flu

TWO children have been hospitalised in Indonesia with suspected bird flu, and the government put the country on high alert yesterday as it struggled to contain a virus that has killed four people.

Authorities closed the city’s main zoo after tests showed some exotic birds had been infected with avian flu.

Officials also said the cash-strapped government had little money to carry out a mass culling of infected poultry or birds.