JAKARTA, March 29 (Reuters) - A 14-year-old boy and a 28-year-old woman have died of bird flu in Indonesia, a health ministry official said on Thursday.

The deaths brought Indonesia's confirmed human death toll from the H5N1 virus to 71, the highest in the world.

The boy was from West Sumatra and died on March 24, while the woman was from the capital, Jakarta, and died on Wednesday, Joko Suyono of the ministry's bird flu centre said by telephone.

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