By Fitri Wulandari

JAKARTA, March 27 (Reuters) - Indonesia, which has the highest human death toll from bird flu, agreed on Tuesday to resume sending virus samples to the World Heath Organisation.

The WHO meeting in Jakarta also established a mechanism for developing countries to have fair access to bird flu vaccines.

"We have now agreed with WHO and other member states of WHO on a timetable to make the changes necessary to accomplish our objective of achieving equitable and affordable access to vaccines for developing countries around the world," Indonesia"e;s Health Minister Siti Fadillah Supari said.

Indonesia"e;s decision at the meeting between the WHO and 18 developing countries will allow experts to study the make-up of the viruses and track the spread of any particular strain.

Jakarta was concerned the samples, which can be used to make vaccines, would be used commercially and only rich countries would benefit from any resultant vaccines.

"Indonesian viruses are among four (H5N1 virus) families in the world. We want you to join the global family. They are very important to understand," Robert Webster, director of the WHO"e;s collaborating centre in Memphis, told the gathering.

Health experts say countries who restrict sample-sharing put their populations at risk because scientists would be unable to tell if a strain had mutated or built resistance to drugs. Bird flu has affected poultry across Asia and passed through Africa and Europe. Experts fear it could mutate into a form that would pass easily between people, triggering a pandemic that could kill millions.

Two more Indonesians have died from suspected bird flu, the health ministry said on Tuesday, and the latest deaths could take the country"e;s confirmed human death toll to 68.

An outbreak in Bangladesh has led 50,000 chickens to be culled in nine farms near the capital Dhaka since last week. No humans have tested positive although Bangladesh said it is closely monitoring 100 workers at the affected farms.

Japan has decided to keep stockpiling the Tamiflu anti-viral drug in case of a bird flu pandemic despite cases of abnormal behaviour in teenagers who were prescribed the drug.

The Health Ministry has ordered the importer of the drug, made by Swiss firm Roche Holding AG, to warn doctors against giving it to teenagers. Roche has disputed suggestions its drug is unsafe.

Japan plans to store enough doses within the next year to treat 25 million patients and to prevent 3 million from being infected. Japan"e;s population is about 128 million.

Egypt has the largest number of confirmed human bird flu cases outside Asia and two Egyptian children have tested postive for the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus, the heath ministry said on Tuesday, bringing the total number of human cases to 29.

Thirteen Egyptians have died since bird flu first occurred in the country"e;s poultry a year ago.