Boy dies of bird flu in Vietnam

A nine-year-old boy in Vietnam has died of bird flu, bringing the number of people in the country killed by the virus to 21, a doctor said today.

The boy from the southern Mekong Delta province of Tra Vinh was admitted to the Hospital for Tropical Diseases in Ho Chi Minh City early yesterday morning and died later that day, hospital deputy director Tran Tinh Hien said.