Indonesia confirms two new cases of human bird flu

Jakarta: Indonesia has confirmed two new human cases of bird flu, both cases come from different parts of West Java province, officials said on Monday.

Dr. Muhammad Nadhirin from the ministry's national bird flu centre said two tests had been done to confirm the results. “The position is 74 cases, 55 of whom have died,'' he said.

Nadhirin said it was not immediately known whether the victims, one a 35-year-old the other a two-and-a-half-year-old boy, had contact with fowl.