Chinese boy with bird flu critical

A SIX-YEAR-OLD Chinese boy who contracted bird flu late last month is in a critical condition.

Doctors were racing to save the life of the boy, the country’s eighth confirmed human infection, the official Xinhua News Agency said.

China confirmed yesterday the boy, surnamed Ouyang, had contracted the H5N1 virus and said he was in a stable condition at the Hunan Provincial Children’s Hospital, in central China.