First human bird flu deaths in Indonesia spark vaccine plans

INDONESIA confirmed its first human deaths from bird flu yesterday — a man and his two daughters — bringing Asia’s toll from the disease to 57 people.

Health Minister Siti Fadilah Supari told reporters lab tests from Hong Kong showed the 38-year-old and his two children, aged nine and one, had the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu.

All three family members lived in a suburb of Jakarta and died earlier this month.