Bird flu pledge after more deaths

Indonesia’s health minister promised to work harder to protect people from bird flu after two young children died of the H5N1 virus, raising the country’s toll to 22.

Siti Fadilah Supari said yesterday, after tests came back positive for a three-year-old boy and a 12-year-old girl who died last week: “We will carry out intensive rapid diagnosis of patients suspected of having the disease.”