Bird flu death toll in Indonesia at 38
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International tests have confirmed that a 7-year-old girl died from the H5N1 strain of bird flu earlier this month, bringing Indonesia&#039;s death toll from the virus to at least 38, a health official said Thursday.
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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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The U.N. health agency described the deaths of six Indonesian family members from bird flu as the most important development in the spread of the virus since 2003, saying it is investigating whether the disease has spread from person to person.
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Indonesia's agriculture ministry said Wednesday tests showed a bird flu strain that had killed millions of chickens in the country could not be transmitted to humans.
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A 14-month-old Vietnamese boy who died of  bird flu on Sunday was probably infected by the H5N1 strain  that has killed 27 people in Asia this year, an official at the  World Health Organization said on Wednesday.
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Laboratory tests have confirmed that a 22- year-old woman in Africa's most populous nation, Nigeria, died from the virulent H5N1 strain of bird flu last month, the World Health Organisation said.
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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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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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BANGKOK The human death toll from bird flu reached 31 on Monday when Thailand confirmed that a 9-year-old girl had died from the disease, while Indonesia announced it was among the countries still struggling with Asia&#39;s continuing outbreaks.
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A 10-year-old girl who died this week has been confirmed as Indonesia&#039;s 34th bird flu victim, the health ministry said.
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The World Health Organization has confirmed two more cases of bird flu in Indonesia, one of them fatal, bringing the country's death toll from the virus to 48.
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Bangkok (VNA) - A young Thai man in eastern Prachinburi province died of bird flu on Wednesday, Thai Health Minister Sudarat Keyuraphan said.
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The bird flu toll among tigers at a  Thai zoo has risen to 83, but the keepers who looked after them  are free of the deadly disease which has killed 31 people in  southeast Asia this year, officials said on Friday.
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A vaccine to combat human bird flu could be ready as early as July, Indonesia said on Friday, adding it was prepared to use it immediately despite calls from the WHO to build up a stockpile first. Health Minister Siti Fadillah Supari said the World Health Organization's advice was not realistic in the case of Indonesia, which has the highest number of bird flu deaths.
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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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Thailand confirmed on Tuesday a  26-year-old woman at the center of fears bird flu might have  been passed between people had died of the disease.
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A deadly strain of bird flu blamed for 27 deaths in Asia this year has been found in two dead chickens in Malaysia, a government official said on Thursday.