# 983
Yesterday's report that a patient had succumbed with bird flu symptoms in Phichit has now been put to rest by hospital authorities.
Official: no new case of bird flu in northern Thailand
www.chinaview.cn
2007-07-16 16:42:05
BANGKOK, July 16 (Xinhua) -- Thailand's northern Phichit Provincial Hospital announced on Monday that a man who had bird-flu-like symptom died of liver virus disease, not bird flu.
Doctor Suchart Theparak, deputy director of the hospital, said Wichian Boonraksa, 42, had not been in touch with any chicken.
He said Wichian had chronic liver disease and the condition was complicated with lung infections.
Wichian, who died on Sunday, highly arose worry about the deadly disease since he had fever, cough, exhaustion and pneumonia,which are all the symptoms of bird flu.
Thailand is among the countries hardest hit by the deadly H5N1 virus, having recorded 24 human cases (including 16 fatalities) since the outbreak in 2004.
Editor: Lu Hui
