Girl in Vietnam has bird flu - H5N1 virus
102081
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).
477714
A 26-year-old Thai woman who died of acute pneumonia on 20 September was a âprobableâ case of human-to-human transmission of the H5N1 bird flu virus, the Thai Ministry of Public Health confirmed on Tuesday.
113851
An Indonesian girl from Central Java has died of bird flu, a health ministry official said on Friday.
308446
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.
373216
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.
235066
A woman was confirmed Monday to be suffering from avian flu, the second known human victim of the disease in Thailand since July, but officials said there is no evidence it was the result of human-to-human transmission.
160904
The countryâs latest bird-flu victim, an 8-year-old girl in Phetchabun, remained in critical condition at a hospital yesterday. âShe needs a respirator and her lungs remain inflamed,â said Deputy Public
653067
Asia's bird flu epidemic, which experts fear could spawn a human pandemic, has claimed its 31st victim, a nine-year-old Thai girl who had contact with infected chickens at home.
146702
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.
699895
A farmer in China's southeastern province of Fujian has been infected with the H5N1 form of bird flu, state media said on Thursday, the first human case in the country in about seven weeks.
265188
A 16-year-old Vietnamese girl battling bird flu over the past few weeks has died, the country's third casualty in the past 10 days from the disease that last year devastated South East Asia's poultry industry.
89124
Bird flu has infected five more people in  Vietnam, two of whom are under treatment in Ho Chi Minh City  where riot police are manning checkpoints for poultry vehicles  and authorities have issued warnings to travel agents.
16362
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.
303389
A woman becomes the fifth person in two weeks to be infected with avian flu in Vietnam, raising fears of a new epidemic.
44643
Bird flu has killed a nine-year-old Thai girl, raising the country&#39;s death toll from the disease to 11, a Health Ministry spokeswoman said on Monday.
242584
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.
476851
HONG KONG Officials in Thailand announced Monday that a 32-year-old woman had been hospitalized with the country&#39;s second human case of avian influenza since the disease began a resurgence in July and said that two family members of the sick person had