The child's death takes the number of human bird flu deaths in the country to 41.
Lily Sulistyowati, the health ministry's spokeswoman, said the toddler had contact with sick fowl, the usual route of transmission of the H5N1 virus, which is endemic in poultry in almost all of Indonesia's 33 provinces.
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