Boy died of H5N1 strain of bird flu: doctor
January 4, 2006
ANKARA (Reuters) – A 14-year-old Turkish boy has died of
the H5N1 strain of bird flu, a doctor said on Wednesday,
confirming the first human death from the disease outside China
and southeast Asia.
Doctors had originally said Mehmet Ali Kocyigit died of
pneumonia on Sunday in Van hospital in eastern Turkey.
“He died of the H5N1 strain of bird flu,” Huseyin Avni
Sahin, head doctor at Van hospital, told a televised news
conference. The boy’s sister, Fatma, has also been diagnosed as
having the disease and remains seriously ill.
Source: reuters