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Indonesia, US to meet on bird flu crisis

Indonesia's President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono will meet the top US health official on Monday to discuss the bird flu crisis that has killed 107 people here, his spokesman said. US Secretary of Health and Human Services Michael Leavitt is in Indonesia on a one-day visit, the president's spokesman said. "He will meet the president this afternoon to discuss cooperation in health, with the bird flu issue high on the agenda," said spokesman Dino Patti Djalal. Indonesia is the country worst hit by bird flu, with 107 people known to have died from the disease, 13 of them this year.

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