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    Posted: August 03 2006 at 6:41am
9-year-old Thai girl dies, suspected of catching bird flu
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A Thai girl, who was suspected of contracting bird flu, died at the Lop Buri Provincial Hospital Thursday morning, hospital official said.

Officials were quoted by the web edition of local newspaper the Nation as saying that the nine-year-old girl was suffering from severe lung infections.

The girl was admitted to the hospital Wednesday afternoon after suffering from high fever since Sunday.

Lop Buri chief public health officer Doctor Pranom Khamthiang said she was awaiting a lab result to confirm if the girl had contracted the bird flu virus.

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Lop Buri is the same province/area where the 61 yr. old woman that just tested positive for BF is.
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Originally posted by Hope4Us Hope4Us wrote:

Lop Buri is the same province/area where the 61 yr. old woman that just tested positive for BF is.
 
 
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Lopburi is an interesting town, 153km (96mi) north of Bangkok, which has been important in various periods of history reaching back roughly 1000 years.
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Suspected bird flu patient died in Lop Buri

LOPBURI, Aug 3 (TNA) – A nine-year-old girl, suspected of having bird flu, was pronounced dead Thursday, one day after being admitted to a hospital in this central province, according to a health official.

The body of Kaewtip Chiang-in was kept at the hospital awaiting a lab test to determine if she was infected with bird flu.

The girl suffered from fever, sore throat and severe cough for two days. She was rushed to the hospital after having breathing difficulties.

Her family raises about 20 fighting cocks.

Provincial health officials had inspected her house and nearby areas although none of the fighting cocks died of any unknown cause.

In the northern province of Nan, four suspected bird flu cases were reported and officials are waiting from their lab test results.

Meanwhile, Agriculture and Cooperatives Minister Sudarat Keyuraphan said Thailand would jointly discuss with officials of neighboring countries on measures to control bird flu disease.

The ministry will also hold a meeting of livestock officials in 21 at-risk provinces on Saturday to thrash out measures to prevent bird flu.

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Girl, 9, dies; bird flu outbreak feared

A nine-year-old girl has died with symptoms similar to H5N1 avian flu, although health authorities said it would take another day to determine whether she was a victim of the H5N1 virus.

Geowthip Chiangin died in a district hospital in Lop Buri province, 120km north of Bangkok, after suffering a high fever and pneumonia since Sunday.

Lop Buri's chief health official Pranor Khamthieng said the girl had initially tested negative for the H5N1 virus but samples had been sent to Bangkok for a more thorough investigation into whether she she had died of bird flu.

In Chachoengsao province just east of Bangkok, meanwhile, two patients have been isolated in a state hospital on suspicion of having bird flu. Doctors were conductinglaboratory tests to confirm the diagnosis, a senior health official said Thursday.

Dr Thawat Suntrajarn, director of the Department of Disease Control, said that after earlier tests confirmed an infection of human influenza, doctors at Ban Pho Hospital isolated the two patients in a ward with closed-circuit television cameras, to monitor for bird-flu related symptoms around the clock.

''Because they are having a human influenza, further tests are need to confirm what type of the human flu virus they have and whether they also have bird flu,'' Dr Thawat said.

The patients' names were not released by officials but they were referred to as a 17-year-old youth and a 42-year-old woman. Dr Thawat said the young man had touched ducks as both he and the woman worked in a duck slaughterhouse in Chachoengsao province.

A local livestock official said the province has raised some five million chickens in farms but no bird flu outbreak has been reported in local poultry.

According to Dr Kasiwat Sripradit, the hospital director, the two patients were admitted with high fever and a bad cough.

He said that doctors and clinical technicians found no evidence of infection in their lungs, such as the pneunomia-like symptoms suffered by bird flu patients, and their temperatures have gradually reduced.

''We have only 70 tablets of Tamiflu in our drug stockpile. A suspected bird flu patient needs two tablets a day for five consecutive days. If we run out we still could get more supply within an hour from nearby hospitals,'' Dr. Kasiwat said.

Ban Pho Hospital has also set up special teams of doctors and medical staff to deal with suspected cases of bird flu and a drill is planned for September to test their readiness, said the doctor.

Thailand is suffering its fourth outbreak of avian influenza since the pandemic was first detected in late 2003.

On July 26 Thai health authorities confirmed that a 17-year-old male has died from the avian influenza, making him the kingdom's 15th human victim to the pandemic.

Over the weekend Thai authorities culled 300,000 chickens in the northeastern province of Nakorn Phanom, the latest province to detect the presence of the virus.

Thailand has been fighting the bird flu pandemic since late 2003, when it was was first detected among the country's commercial chicken farms, once a thriving export business.

After eight months of claiming to be bird-flu free the pandemic reemerged several weeks ago in central and northern provinces, killing unknown numbers of poultry and last week claiming the year's first human victim in the kingdom.

Altogether 15 people have died out of 23 confirmed cases since the virus was first detected in Thailand.

Since the beginning of this year there have been more than 2,000 suspected cases of people suffering symptoms similar to bird flu in 67 Thai provinces, but none have yet been confirmed as H5N1 victims.

Avian flu last week killed a teenage boy in the northern province of Phichit. He became the country's 15th victim of bird flu since early this year.

Officials said of 144 patients currently listed throughout Thailand, about 70 of them live in Phichit and were awaiting tests for bird flu. Other 74 patients live in Sukhothai and Suphanburi.

An outbreak of the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu virus was also confirmed in the country's northeastern border province of Nakhon Phanom where some 765 people remain under close observation for possible avian influenza infection after close contact with infected birds.

Local officials said some 300,000 commercially-farmed chickens were culled last Sunday in an attempt to contain the outbreak. (TNA)

 
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I can't get the link, because now the article is blacked out, but earlier in the day, they now said she didn't die of BF but regular flu.  Coming out of that area, I don't know what to believe.
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