BRITAIN is the 13th EU country to be affected by bird flu.

Young people were the latest to fall victim to the bird flu in Egypt, which announced today that a 16-year-old girl had died of the deadly H5N1 strain of the virus and an eight-year-old boy had tested positive.

A 16-year-old girl died today of bird flu, the third human death from the virus since it appeared in Egypt last month, officials said.