Laos confirms first human death from H5N1 bird flu
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Laos on Thursday announced its first confirmed human death from the H5N1 bird flu strain, a 15-year-old girl, days after reporting that the virus was believed to have killed an adult woman.
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The deadly H5N1 bird flu has killed a young man in Thailand, raising the death toll from the virus in Asia to 29 this year, Health Minister Sudarat Keyuraphan said on Thursday.
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A young woman who died in Bangkok 10 days ago appears to have had the first confirmed case of person-to-person transmission of the &quot;bird flu&quot; that emerged in Southeast Asia last winter.
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An 18-year-old girl has died of bird flu  in southern Vietnam and the first confirmed human infection in  the country's north has raised concerns about possible  human-to-human transmission of the virus.
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An Indonesian man who had been  suffering from bird flu for days died early on Thursday, a  hospital official said, taking Indonesia's death toll from the  disease to 52.
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Geneva - The World Health Organisation on Tuesday confirmed that it was examining a &quot;probable&quot; first full case of human-to-human transmission of bird flu in Thailand.
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A Thai girl in a northern province died after being infected with the avian influenza virus, bringing to 11 the number of people killed from the disease in the country, an official at the Health Ministry said.
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A 16-year-old Indonesian girl has died of bird flu, taking the country's confirmed human death toll from the virus to 96, a health ministry official said on Tuesday.
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LAGOS, Nigeria -- Bird flu has claimed its first human victim in Africa's most-populous nation, killing a young Nigerian woman due to graduate from a university and be married this year, officials and the victim's fiance said yesterday.
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HANOI, Aug. 18 (Xinhuanet) -- Vietnam has confirmed that three local people, who died of bird flu early this month, were infected with the virus strain of H5N1.
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A man dies of bird flu in Vietnam, officials say, in the first human death from the virus there since 2005.
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The deadly H5N1 bird flu has killed a  young man in Thailand, raising the death toll from the virus in  Asia to 29 this year, Health Minister Sudarat Keyuraphan said  on Thursday.
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Health officials in Vietnam on Friday confirmed a farmer has been infected with the deadly bird flu virus, the first human case in the country since late 2005.
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Four Nigerians are suspected to have died from H5N1 bird flu, but tests on three of the victims were inconclusive and the virus was confirmed scientifically in only one case, a senior health official said on Wednesday.
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Bangkok, Sept. 28 (VNA) - The Health Ministry of Thailand on Tuesday confirmed that Pranee Krongkaew, 26, died on September 20 of the H5N1 strain of the avian influenza.
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A man in Thailand has died of avian flu, the first human casualty in the country since the disease re-emerged in Asia in July, officials said Thursday.
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Vietnam said initial tests showed a 14-month-old boy died from bird flu, but that it was unclear if the child was infected from the same H5N1 strain of the virus that killed 19 people in the country earlier this year.