Jakarta: Bird flu has spread all over the city of Jakarta. According to Indonesian Agriculture Minister Anton Apriyantono the deadly H5N1 virus has been detected all over the Indonesian capital.
The outbreak was confirmed when the government checked samples from backyard farms throughout the capital.
The virus has already struck 23 of the 30 provinces in Indonesia and has so far killed seven people.
On Friday, government officials destroyed 400 fowl in a residential area of Jakarta near the home of a young girl who died from the disease.
Indonesia has been reluctant to carry out such mass slaughters, citing a lack of money. However hard-hit farmers were offered some compensation in lieu of the fowl that had been culled.
Swiss-based drug manufacturer Roche will let Indonesia produce the anti-viral drug Tamiflu to help fight cases of bird flu in humans.
More than one million birds have been killed since the virus was detected in October 2005.
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