The World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed one more human fatality and one more human infection of bird flu for Indonesia, local officials said in Jakarta yesterday.

A 12-year-old boy who died in Jakarta on May 13 and a 10-year-old boy in North Sumatra, still alive, were the new victims of the disease, said Health Ministry spokeswoman Llly S. Sulistyawati.

The country's total number of fatality of bird flu now stood at32 and that of infection at 43, she added.

All over the world, the WHO has raised the confirmed human death toll from the H5N1 bird flu strain to 122, while the total number of confirmed human infections since the current outbreak began in 2003 has reached 216.