JAKARTA, April 5 (Xinhua) -- As the second test result of a 15-year-old girl showed positive, the bird flu cases in Indonesia have reached 93, and 72 persons out of them have died, an official of the Health Ministry said on Thursday.

    The girl, from central Jakarta, was first admitted to the Catholic Hospital in the city on March 30, two days after she suffered from the germs of the disease of high fever, Haris Subyantoro, official of anti bird flu center of the ministry, told Xinhua by telephone.

    Then on Monday, the patient was transferred to a designed-bird flu hospital of Persahabatan in East Jakarta, he said, adding that the girl had historical contacts with animals, as she has looked after chickens and birds.

    The number of bird flu cases in Indonesia has increased recently after months of absence of new cases. There were five persons died of bird flu in the country last month. And one more died of bird flu early this month.

    The country has agreed to cooperate by sharing its bird flu virus samples with the World Health Organization for scientific purpose.

    Indonesian health authorities have imposed a firm policy separating fowls from human and surveillance on the viruses.

    The authorities forbid raising fowls in residential areas.

    But the implementation of the policy seem does not work, as the authorities in the most of 32 provinces in the country have failed to put it into effect, Indonesian Health Ministry Siti Fadilah Sufari said earlier.