2 Indonesian women die from bird flu, bringing death toll to 61

Two Indonesian women died from bird flu, a health official said Saturday, the latest in a flurry of cases to strike the country worst hit by the virus in recent days.

One of the women died late Friday, the other early Saturday, said Nyoman Kandun, the Ministry of Health's director general of communicable disease control. Both had been treated in the same hospital in the capital, Jakarta. (AP)