AR-News: (Canada) Human death toll from bird flu rises as boy dies in Thailand

[Animalara2003 at aol.com]

at 12:20 on February 14, 2004, EST.
DANIEL COONEY 
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - A 13-year-old boy died of bird flu in Thailand on 
Saturday, an official said, bringing to 20 the human death toll from the disease 
that's also killed millions of chickens and ducks across Asia and is now 
feared to have jumped to other animals. 
The boy died late at night at a hospital in the country's northeast, where 
he'd been in intensive care after testing positive for the avian flu virus on 
Thursday, said Charal Trinvuthipong, director general of the Public Health 
Ministry's Department of Communicable Disease Control. 
The disease is now confirmed in six human deaths in Thailand and 14 in 
Vietnam. 
The Thai boy, whose identity hasn't been released, became sick 10 days after 
his family's chickens started dying mysteriously, a ministry statement said 
earlier. 
"The boy's condition got slightly better before it worsened rapidly," and he 
then died, Charal said, adding that the disease had harmed the victim's 
kidneys. 



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