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Thailand: Suspected bird flu victim dies

Posted on September 30, 2008

This may be the start of the 2008-09 H5N1 season. Via the Bangkok Post: Suspected bird flu victim dies. Excerpt:A worker on a free-range duck farm died from bird flu-like symptoms in Pho Prathap Chang district yesterday, and health authorities put his 12-year-old son under close observation for signs of infection with the virus. Manee Mankhetkit, 48, was taken to the provincial hospital on Monday after he developed a high fever, suffered from a cough, sore throat, chest pains and breathing difficulties.The man was treated in an isolated intensive care ward because he had come into contact with...

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