JAKARTA, June 2 (Xinhua) -- A 25-year old nurse identified by her initials as "Ci" is currently being treated at the Hasan Sadikin Hospital for bird flu-like symptoms in Bandung, capital of West Java province, Indonesia.

    Ci was admitted to the hospital which has been treating a number of bird flu patients on Thursday evening, Antara news agency reported on Friday.

    "When she arrived at this hospital last night, her body temperature was very high, namely 39.6 Celsius degrees but now it has decreased to 37 Celsius degrees," Hadi Jusuf, head of the birdflu medical treatment unit of the hospital, was quoted as saying Friday.

    The hospital was planning to send the patient´s blood sample to the laboratory of the Health Development and Research Body in Jakarta.

    "We could not confirm whether she is positive of having been infected by avian influenza virus or not, although she had earlier have contacts with siblings, 18-year old Ad and 10-year old Ai, who died of bird flu virus recently," he said.

    The ailing nurse has never had contact with poultry, but she had treated the sibling when being treated at Ujungberung Hospital,where Ci works as a nurse.

    If she is confirmed of being infected by bird flu virus, it would be the first case of human-to-human transmission of the virus, he said.

    Meanwhile, the UN World Health Organization (WHO) recently announced that international health investigators were finding no evidence that efficient transmission of the highly pathogenic avian influenza virus has emerged from a family cluster of cases in Indonesia´s North Sumatra.