Thailand records new flu death October 20, 2005 - 2:44PM
Page Tools Email to a friend Printer format Thailand has had a new human death from bird flu, taking its national total to 13, Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra said today.
"Lab test results came out about midnight last night and came out as positive," Thaksin told a news conference.
Health officials said the victim was a 48-year-old man in Kanchanburi province, around 100km west of Bangkok, which has recently reported fresh outbreaks of the deadly H5N1 avian influenza virus in poultry.
"The first lab results came out negative, but we tested it several times, and it confirmed it was positive," Thawat Suntrajarn, director general at the Department of Disease Control said.
He added that the victim's son, who had a history of contact with chickens, had so far not tested positive for the disease.
A provincial health official said the victim had been slaughtering chickens near his house before falling ill.
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