Alert over fears ‘bird flu’ may spread

MEDICAL experts are on alert over fears that a new deadly form of the flu virus may be capable of spreading.

Doctors have confirmed that a man who died from a virus in Hong Kong a week ago had been suffering from what is commonly known as “bird flu.”

Earlier this month, the man’s nine-year-old boy was admitted to hospital suffering from flu and is now in a stable condition. It was confirmed he had the new influenza AH5NI virus, as had his father.