Via Yahoo News, a superb but appalling AP story by Margie Mason in Medan, North Sumatra: Sole bird flu survivor shuns treatment. Here's an excerpt:

Ginting's mother, who declines to reveal her name, sits on a straw mat on a grassy patch outside her son's hospital room, at the end of a row of ground-floor rooms that open to the outside.

Despite losing three children and four grandchildren, she is not afraid to care for her son, who must be fed and is too weak to sit unaided since falling ill May 4.

She said he is slowly recovering, but still suffers a cough and struggles to speak.

"I'm not afraid. I don't even wear a mask or anything," she said. "If it spreads, I will be the first one to die."

Ginting's mother chewed on betel nut, a mild natural stimulant, as hens, roosters and chicks scratched the ground just feet away. Several cats also roamed outside her son's door.

"Why would I have to be afraid of chickens around here," she said. "The ones who died, they didn't eat chicken, after all."

The family, which has spoken to few outsiders, has been the subject of intense international interest because of the number of its members who were infected. WHO officials say it marks an important development with the H5N1 virus, which is thought to have been transmitted among people in a handful of other cases.

For the rest of the excerpt:
http://crofsblogs.typepad.com/h5n1/2006/05/indonesia_not_a.html#more