JAKARTA, 02 February 2006 - A 15-year-old boy whose results from local tests came back positive for bird flu has died at Hasan Sadikin Hospital in the Indonesian town of Bandung, local press reports said Thursday. If the local lab tests are confirmed by the WHO-accredited lab in Hong Kong, it would be Indonesia's 15th human fatality from bird flu, said The Jakarta Post newspaper.

The teenager, a resident of Padalarang in Bandung regency, some150 km south of Jakarta, was admitted to the hospital on Monday with a high fever and in severe respiratory distress, classic bird flu symptoms. He died Wednesday morning. The boy was the second suspected bird flu patient to have died at the hospital in a month. In mid-January, a three-year-old boy died of bird flu. The native of Indramayu was being treated at the hospital with his sister and parents, who were all released last Saturday.

According to Bandung regency's health office, some 20 chickens reportedly died near the boy's house shortly before he became ill.

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