Bird flu kills first human in Pakistan, child first case in Myanmar
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Bird flu hit two countries Saturday as it was confirmed that a man who died culling infected birds in Pakistan became the country's first human fatality, while a seven-year-old girl became Myanmar's first human case.
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Pakistani authorities and World Health Organisation experts were trying to determine on Tuesday whether bird flu had passed from human to human after the country reported its first human death from the virus.
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A 9-year-old boy died from bird flu just hours after being admitted to a hospital in Indonesia, a senior Health Ministry official said Monday.
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Bird flu has killed a nine-year-old Thai girl, raising the country's death toll from the disease to 11, a Health Ministry spokeswoman said on Monday.
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BANGKOK - An 18-year-old man from the central province of Prachin Buri has died from the deadly H5N1 bird flu, becoming Thailand&#39;s first fatality from the virus since it resurfaced in July, a Health Ministry spokeswoman said Thursday.
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Spain has recorded its first case of H5N1 bird flu, the Agriculture Ministry said Friday. The deadly strain was found in a water fowl in a marsh area outside the northern city of Vitoria.
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Bird flu killed a 15-year-old boy in Indonesia, a health official said Wednesday citing local tests, as the country struggled to get a grip on a recent spike in cases.
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Health authorities in Indonesia have begun investigating whether a nine-year-old girl who died this week of the H5N1 strain of bird flu belonged to a cluster of human cases.
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Vietnam said two children who died of bird flu this month had tested positive for the H5N1 strain, bringing to three the number of fatalities from the latest outbreak of a virus that killed 24 people across Asia earlier this year.
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Vietnam confirmed a new bird flu death to bring Asia&#39;s human toll to 30 yesterday, while Thailand rued its flawed efforts to control the epidemic after reporting its first likely case of the virus jumping from one person to another.
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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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TOKYO, Dec. 22 -- Japan reported its first case of bird flu in a human on Wednesday -- a man who got the disease from birds. Bird flu has swept through farms across Asia this year, forcing officials to cull more than 100 million birds.
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Vietnam said two children who died of  bird flu this month had tested positive for the H5N1 strain,  bringing to three the number of fatalities from the latest  outbreak of a virus that killed 24 people across Asia earlier  this year.
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LONDON, Feb. 3 -- The deadly H5N1 Asian strain of bird flu, which has killed 165  people since 2003, has been confirmed on a commercial turkey farm in eastern England, health authorities said Saturday.
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Bird flu has killed a 10-year-old girl in  southern Vietnam, doctors said Monday, and they hoped the death  of a Cambodian women suspected of having the virus would force  Phnom Penh to take preventative measures.
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BANGKOK - A 26-year-old woman who died of avian flu eight days ago almost certainly contracted the disease from her daughter in what could be the first documented case of human to human transmission of the virus, health officials say.
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Health officials in Thailand say a woman who died from the bird flu virus last week may have caught it from her daughter. Twenty-nine people have died in Thailand and Vietnam since the outbreak was detected in January.