16th Thai bird flu death
August 7th, 2006
A 27 year old man that had buried diseased chickens on his farm, without using any protective clothing, has died following an infection with the highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu virus. Thailand is in the middle of a serious avian influenza outbreak which has swept across different provinces. Another death had been recorded last month and now the country is stepping up surveillance, although suspicions of new human infections arise every day.