Just days after Indonesian authorities organized a three-day bird flu crisis exercise, a 3-year-old boy died from bird flu, boosting the death toll in the country to 108, the health ministry announced Wednesday.

The toddler from Central Java district of Wonogiri, identified only as MS, first showed the flu-like symptoms of high fever and breathing difficulties on April 17.

He was brought to the Muwardi Hospital in Solo on April 23, where he died on the same day, ministry representative Lily Sulistyowati said in a statement, according to CNN.

Two laboratory tests came back positive for the H5N1 virus and health investigators found the boy “had a history of contact with dead poultry,” she added.

The boy’s death brings Indonesia’s bird-flu toll to 108 among the 133 diagnosed human cases of H5N1, the strain of bird flu that can be deadly in people. Both figures are the highest worldwide. Before the latest death in Indonesia, the World Health Organization had confirmed at least 240 deaths in 12 countries in Asia and Africa.

The United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization released a report last week categorizing the Indonesian efforts to control bird flu over the past few months as rather small. The country is also considered a “hot spot” for the virus, and one of the main fears refers to the mutation of the virus and the potential significant damage it could inflict on humans.