JAKARTA, Jan. 22 (Xinhua) -- A 30-year-old Indonesian man from the outskirt of Jakarta was infected by avian influenza, bringing the total cases to 120 with 97 fatal in the hardest-hit country, Indonesian health ministry said Tuesday.

    The man from Tanggerang town had been treated in a bird flu designed hospital of Persahabatan in east Jakarta since January 18,an official of anti-bird flu center of the ministry Joko Suyono said.

    "Two of his laboratories tests show positive today," Suyono told Xinhua.

    The man did not have historical contact with fowl like many other victims of the disease, said the official.

    On January 20 the man indicated symptoms of high fever, coach, respiratory problem, leucopenia, thrombocytopenic, pneumonia, said Suyono.

    The man first showed the symptoms of the disease at January 14 and went to a hospital in the town before he was shifted to the hospital in east Jakarta, said the official.

    Indonesia is one of the countries which have been at the front row in fighting to combat the spreading of highly pathogenic H5N1 viruses, which have slowly and persistently spread on human.

    Indonesia, the world's fourth most populous country and home to millions of backyard chickens, is considered a possible hot spot for spreading the disease, although the country has culled millions of chickens and pigs.