Bird flu kills Indonesian man, spreads through Asian poultry stocks

Bird flu killed its third victim in as many days in Indonesia and ravaged poultry stocks in Tibet and India on Wednesday, as the virus picked up steam across Asia.

The death of the 32-year-old man raised Indonesia's human toll to 101 _ accounting for nearly half the worldwide total. The man died in the capital Tuesday, three days after being hospitalized.

It was not immediately clear how he contracted the H5N1 virus, said Health Ministry official Toto Haryanto, though one of his neighbors was known to be a pigeon breeder.

"We are not sure if any of those birds were sickened by the H5N1 virus," he said. "We're still …