Bird flu: Another death, another outbreak

An Indonesian man has died of bird flu, raising the country’s human toll to four, officials said today, as international health experts prepared to go house-to-house to search for infected poultry.

The government – accused of covering-up outbreaks of bird flu when it first started killing chickens two years ago – said it would work closely with the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation to hunt down sick fowl on the densely populated island of Java.