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To: one_less who wrote (167)10/10/2004 2:24:01 PM
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Bird Flu Kills Thai Girl in 11th Death

ASSOCIATED PRESS

BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - A 9-year-old girl has died of bird flu in northern Thailand, raising the country's death toll from the virus to 11, a Health Ministry official said Monday.

Kanda Srilueng-On died overnight at a hospital in Phetchabun province only hours after tests confirmed she had the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu, said Dr. Kamnuan Ungchoosak, chief of the ministry's communicable disease control department.

Kanda was hospitalized Sept. 30 with flu-like symptoms and was believed to have caught the disease from infected chickens.

The girl's death brings the region's human toll from the disease to 31, with 11 victims in Thailand and 20 in Vietnam. More than 100 million chickens and poultry also have been killed by the disease or have been culled since the bird flu crisis spread through much of Asia early this year.

Thailand went on high alert last week after it reported that an earlier bird flu victim died after probably contracting the virus from her daughter. She was the first in this outbreak believed to have contracted the disease from another human, rather than poultry.

Typically people who get bird flu acquire it from infected birds. But experts fear the bird virus will someday mutate into a form that spreads easily from one person to another, which could set the stage for a worldwide outbreak of deadly flu.

lasvegassun.com
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