Turkish boy may have died of bird flu, sister also ill
A 14-year-old Turkish boy who was one of six people tested for bird flu has died and his sister was in a critical and worsening condition, doctors said.
Authorities were still waiting for test results and could not immediately confirm whether the boy’s death on Sunday was caused by bird flu. If confirmed, it would be the country’s first human fatality from the virus.
“It can’t be known whether the disease is bird flu or not before the test results is announced in Ankara,” Huseyin Avni Sahin, chief physician at 100th Yil Hospital in the country’s southeastern Van province, told the Anatolia news agency.
Authorities were expecting preliminary test results yesterday. Four other children and a 35-year-old woman suffering from fever and pneumonia-like symptoms have also been tested for the bird flu virus over the past two days.
Source: Taipei Times
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