DHAKA, Bangladesh - Bangladesh's Health Ministry says the nation's first human case of the H5N1 strain of bird flu has been detected. The Directorate General of Health Services statement says a child was infected by the virus in January. The...

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A spokesman for the health department said a 16-month-old child in Dhaka was infected by the virus last January and suffered respiratory problems but she was cured by two weeks of treatment. A sample of the victim's blood was sent to the Centre...
DHAKA, May 22 (AFP): A 16-month-old boy has been confirmed as Bangladesh's first human case of the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus, a senior health ministry official said on Thursday. We got the confirmation yesterday from the CDC (US Centers for...
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