AR-News: (France) Asia bird flu toll rises to 20 as Thai boy dies

[Animalara2003 at aol.com]

Bird flu claimed its 20th fatality in Asia this weekend with the death of a 
13-year-old boy in Thailand as Beijing held an exercise to prepare for a 
possible outbreak of the disease. 
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On Sunday, the Chinese Agriculture Ministry reported two more suspected 
outbreaks of bird flu, in central province of Hubei and the southwestern province 
of Yunnan, according to Xinhua, the official press agency. 
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The Thai boy died late Saturday in the country's northeast, where he had been 
in intensive care since testing positive on Thursday for the avian flu virus, 
A(H5N1), said a senior Public Health Ministry official, Charal Trinvuthipong. 
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It is confirmed to have killed 6 people in Thailand and 14 in Vietnam. 
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The boy, Ekaphan Pongkhan, died after more than two weeks in a hospital. He 
became sick 10 days after his family's chickens started dying mysteriously. The 
boy and the other confirmed Thai victims - four boys aged 6 to 7 and a 
58-year-old woman - are thought to have caught the virus from direct contact with 
infected poultry. But fears persist that the virus could combine with a human 
flu virus to become a deadly disease that can spread among people. 
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