JAKARTA, Indonesia, Jan 12 (Reuters) - A 37-year-old Indonesian woman has died of bird flu, taking the country's human death toll to 59, a hospital official said on Friday.

The woman, from Serpong town in western Java, had been diagnosed as positive for the virus earlier this week.

"The woman died yesterday at 7.35 p.m. (1235 GMT) because of organs malfunction which is caused by (bird flu) virus H5N1," Dr. Muchtar Ichsan, chief of bird flu management at Persahabatan Hospital, told Reuters.

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