After being isolated for more than 30 hours, a 37-year-old paperboy, SA, suspected of being infected with bird flu died on Tuesday at 4:30 p.m. in the isolation room of Hasan Sadikin Hospital in Bandung, West Java.

taken from here...

[link to hisz.rsoe.hu]

This death happened no Tuesday in West Java.

It appears that the authorities there might be trying to down play this a bit too, the story seems to be somewhat evasive.

Of real concern is that there seems to be at least one fresh case being reported on a pretty much daily basis now.

Its scarin me in particular as a lot of them ARE heading into my part of the worls, sorry if that sounds a bit selfinterested, but dying from this bugs is NOT what I had in mind for my eventual departure.