A doctor in Vietnam said another person died of bird flu today, bringing the region’s toll to 11.

TWO Vietnamese sisters who died of bird flu may have caught the disease from their brother, the World Health Organisation said yesterday.

Two sisters who died of bird flu in Vietnam may have caught the disease from their brother, in what would be the first known case of human-to-human transmission of the illness in its current outbreak, the World Health Organisation said today.

AFTER days of denying it had a problem, Thailand became the latest flash-point in the bird flu crisis with claims yesterday that a village boy is infected as the World Health Organisation warned that the fast-spreading virus could mutate into a form deadlier to humans.

International health experts are seeking a vaccine for the bird flu that has killed five people in Vietnam and millions of chickens across Asia.

AN eight-year-old girl has become the fifth confirmed death from bird flu in Vietnam, the World Health Organisation said yesterday as Asia went on alert against the chicken-borne virus.

A TEAM of World Health Organisation (WHO) experts are to visit two suspected SARS patients in a southern Chinese hospital as tourists began canceling trips to disease-hit Guangdong province.

Another suspected case of SARS emerged in southern China today as international medical investigators scoured an apartment block to determine if it played any role in the infection of a man who lived there – the season’s only confirmed case of the virus so far.

Nurses today accused Canadian hospital officials of ignoring warnings of Toronto’s latest SARS outbreak.