JAKARTA (Reuters) - A 44-year-old Indonesian woman has diedof bird flu, taking the country's total death total from thedisease to 87, a health ministry official said on Monday.

The woman, from Pekan Baru city on Sumatra island, fellsick after she bought chicken in a market last month, AzizmanSaad, head of bird flu management at the hospital where she wastreated, told Reuters.