A World Health Organisation laboratory test has confirmed a five-year-old Indonesian boy who died last month was infected with bird flu.
His death takes the total number of confirmed bird flu fatalities in the country to 40.
A health ministry official says the boy died on June 16 in Tulungagung, East Java province, after being admitted to hospital eight days earlier.
Indonesia has seen a steady rise in human bird flu infections and deaths since its first known outbreak of the deadly H5N1 virus in poultry in late 2003.
It has registered more human deaths this year than any other country.
WHO confirms 40th Indonesian bird flu death
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