Jan 29 (Reuters) - The World Health Organisation (WHO) confirmed on Monday the death of a six year-old Indonesian girl from bird flu earlier this month.

Here is a brief chronology of some of the major bird flu developments:

Feb. 8, 2006 - The first African cases of the deadly H5N1 strain are detected in poultry in the northern Nigerian states of Kano, Kaduna and Plateau.

Feb. 17 - Egypt finds its first cases of H5N1 in chickens.

Feb. 18 - India announces its first cases of H5N1, finding the virus in poultry in a western state.

Feb. 25 - France confirms H5N1 at a farm in the east where thousands of turkeys have died. It is the first case of the virus in domestic farm birds in the EU.

Aug. 8 - China says its first H5N1 human case was in 2003, and not in 2005 as it had originally reported.

Sept. 28 - China shares long-sought after samples of H5N1 in what many scientists view as a breakthrough in cooperation.

Dec. 8 - Foreign donors pledge an additional $475.9 million for the global fight against the virus at the end of a three-day meeting in Mali.

Dec. 21 - South Korea confirms a fourth case of bird flu in poultry. In November, South Korea had confirmed its first case of H5N1 in about three years.

Jan. 9, 2007 - China announces that a farmer from the eastern province of Anhui contracted H5N1 in December, the country's first human case in months. He was released from hospital on Jan. 6.

Jan. 15 - Thailand reports its first outbreak of H5N1 in six months in some ducks in the northern province of Phitsanulok.

Jan. 16 - Japan confirms its first outbreak of H5N1 in three years in poultry in the southwestern prefecture of Miyazaki. A second outbreak is confirmed on Jan. 27. Jan. 29 - WHO confirms another death in Indonesia. The global death toll stands at 164.

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