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A brief press release indicates that the 15-year-old girl suspected of H5N1 infection I first reported on here, has tested positive in a Thai Hospital.
February 27 2007 at 01:22PM
Bangkok - Laos confirmed on Tuesday its first human case of bird flu, a 15-year-old girl living in a suburb of Vientiane where the virus was found in poultry three weeks ago.
The girl, who went down with fever and respiratory problems on February 15, was in stable condition in a Thai hospital, the Lao Ministry of Health and World Health Organisation said in a joint statement.
