Bird flu kills young girl in Thailand

A nine-year-old girl has died of bird flu in northern Thailand, raising the country’s death toll from the virus to 11, a Health Ministry official said today.

Kanda Srilueng-On died overnight at a hospital in Phetchabun province just hours after tests confirmed she was stricken with the disease, said Dr Kamnuan Ungchoosak, chief of the Health Ministry’s communicable disease control department.