BRUSSELS, Jan 16 (Reuters) - The European Union needs no new measures against bird flu for now despite the disease's spread in Asia, the bloc's executive body said on Tuesday.

"All the measures that we have currently are sufficient to protect the community in that development," European Commission spokesman Philip Tod told a daily news briefing, adding the EU would remain vigilant.

The EU has restricted imports of poultry and related products from some Asian countries due to outbreaks of avian flu.

Four Indonesians have died of bird flu this year, taking the number of human deaths from bird flu in the country to 61, the highest in the world. The virus is also spreading among flocks in Vietnam and flaring again in Thailand.

On Tuesday, Japan's farm ministry said an outbreak of bird flu at a poultry farm in the southwest of the country was due to the lethal H5N1 strain of the virus, the first such case to hit Japan in three years.

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