3rd Turkish Child Dead from Bird Flu
An 11-year-old girl died of bird flu in Turkey on Friday, the country’s third death from the virus, officials said.
Hulya Kocyigit is the sister of two teenagers who died earlier this week of the virus. Mehmet Ali Kocyigit, 14, died of a strain of avian influenza on Sunday, and Fatma Kocyigit, 15, died Thursday.
The children lived in a remote rural district of eastern Turkey near the Armenian border. Their six-year-old brother is also being treated for the same disease in the hospital.
Huseyin Avni Sahin, the head doctor at Van hospital where the children died, told CNN Turk 23 people were now being treated at his hospital for suspected bird flu.
World Health Organization (WHO) spokeswoman Maria Cheng told CNN the group has confirmed that the two teenagers had an H5 variety of the avian influenza, but said it is not yet known if it was the deadly H5N1 strain.
Source: CNN.
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