Jakarta, Indonesia ? The World Health Organization has confirmed two more cases of bird flu in Indonesia, one of them fatal, bringing the country’s death toll from the virus to 48.

The cases, which occurred last year, were added to the WHO tally because of a recent change in the testing standards that the body sets for cases of the H5N1 virus. They were already included in Indonesia’s Health Ministry tally.

“WHO is adding two cases in Indonesia, dating back to June and November of 2005,” the WHO said in a statement received today. “The retrospectively confirmed cases bring the total in Indonesia to 63. Of these cases, 48 have been fatal.”

Nearly all the people who have been infected had close contact with sick birds or their droppings.