Five bird flu suspects were detected, and one of them was confirmed positively infected with the type-A avian influenza virus, in Malang district, East Java, in the January-August period in 2008, a local health official said, according to Antara. The bird-flu infected patient was identified by the initials as Sl (47), a resident of Bululawang, Malang Health Service Chief, Wahyu Agus Arifin said here on Saturday. Malang health authorities had recorded 10 bird-flu-related cases and 13 happenings in August when a number of poultry had died. "Most of the areas infected by the bird flu virus were poultry farms where the environment was not clean," Endy Kuasaery, head of the Malang Animal Husbandry Service, said. A total of 1,189 poultry died during the period January-August 2008, he said. Most of the bird-flu cases occurred in nine sub districts, namely Pagak, Wonosari. , August 30, SPA--
