Thai toddler infected with bird flu

An 18 month old boy has become the 21st person in Thailand to catch the H5N1 bird flu virus, but is recovering in hospital, a senior health ministry official said today.

The boy lives in a house in the Bangkok suburb of Minburi, where three fighting cocks and a chicken also lived, said Dr Thawat Suntarajarn, director-general of Thailand’s Department of Communicable Disease Control.