he H5N1 or the bird flu Virus has claimed its 100th life in Indonesia, the country hardest hit by the virus. The 9-year-old boy died at the Suliant Saroso Hospital early Monday.

On Sunday, a 23-year-old woman also died and laboratory test confirmed that the cause was the bird flu virus as the woman reportedly lived near a poultry slaughterhouse in East Jakarta. The virus has become endemic in birds in almost all 's 33 provinces.

Indonesia, according to date from World Health Organization (WHO), has the highest number of human deaths from the avian influenza worldwide. In a statement, the Indonesian health ministry's bird flu information center cited that there are 123 human cases of bird flu in Indonesia with 100 deaths.