Bird Flu Kills Vietnam Teenager, Virus Fears Rise
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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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Two Vietnamese children who died in early August were infected with the killer strain of bird flu that swept through Asia's poultry this year, bringing the region's human death toll to 27, Vietnam confirmed Monday.
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HANOI -- Vietnam yesterday confirmed the sixth human death from bird flu in three weeks, and Thailand recorded its first case among poultry this year as health specialists expressed concern about a possible repeat of last year's devastating outbreak.
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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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According to officials in Viet Nam, a 16 year old girl has the H5N1 bird (avian) flu virus. She is from Tay Ninh province (southern part of the country).
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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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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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A Cambodian woman has died of bird flu, in the first confirmed non-Vietnamese death in the latest outbreak.
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A nine-year-old Indonesian boy has died   of bird flu, an official of the health ministry's bird flu   information center said on Sunday, taking the country's death   toll from the disease to 51.
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Vietnam culled 450 ducks in its largest  city on Thursday, its latest attempt to stop the spread of the  bird flu virus that has killed 34 people across Asia and  ravaged the region's poultry industry.
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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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A 10-month-old boy has become the seventh person hospitalized with bird flu symptoms in Thailand since a teenager died of the disease last week, officials said Tuesday.
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Vietnamese state media on Saturday announced that a man had died of bird flu, the country&#39;s first human death from the disease since November 2005.
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KAMPUNG PASIR PEKAN, Malaysia  - A teenager from the village at the center of a bird flu outbreak has been hospitalized with cold symptoms, Malaysia&#39;s health minister said on Friday, as poultry farmers counted their losses.
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A teenager from the village at the center of a bird flu outbreak has been hospitalized with cold symptoms, Malaysia's health minister said on Friday, as poultry farmers counted their losses.
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A 6-year-old Indonesian boy died of bird flu at the weekend, bringing the country's death toll from the disease to 81, officials said on Monday.
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A Chinese soldier has died from bird flu, taking the death toll from the virus in the world's most populous country to 16, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday.