408 cases reported. 256 deaths. World Health Organization

NOTE I think this may be very important. Indonesia has reported no new cases in 2009, despite having the largest number of cases and the highest death rate. Has the feud between WHO and the Indonesian government resulted in them withholding information as well as samples?

Reports of infection in Indonesian poultry

Avian influenza has struck a second district in Bali despite efforts to contain the spread of the disease on the island, the district’s animal husbandry, marine and fisheries agency said on Friday.

I Gusti Ngurah Sandjada, the head of the agency in Jembrana district in western Bali, said the outbreak was discovered after 52 chickens in the village of Banyubiru died over the course of four days.

“We immediately conducted a rapid test and found that the chickens were infected with the H5N1 virus,” Sandjada said. [snip]

Meanwhile, state-run Antara news agency reported on Friday that bird flu cases had been reported in 11 subdistricts in Banyuwangi, at the easternmost tip of Java Island. Since January, 932 chickens were killed by the virus, the highest number of chicken deaths due to bird flu ever recorded in East Java Province.

Dewa Made Ngurah, the head of the animal husbandry, marine and fisheries agency in Bali’s provincial capital of Denpasar, said that many birds were smuggled from Banyuwangi to Bali despite a 2005 bylaw prohibiting the unregulated flow of poultry in and out of the province.