Second bird-flu death in Turkey
A second Turkish teenager who tested positive for bird flu died at hospital today, the semi-official Anatolia news agency reported.
Turkish labs have reported two human cases of bird flu in preliminary tests. A teenage farm boy who died after developing pneumonia-like symptoms and his sister died early today, Anatolia reported.
If the deaths are confirmed as being from the deadly H5N1 strain, they would be the first fatalities outside south-east Asia in the current bird flu outbreak.
More than 70 people – most of them farm workers in close contact with fowl - have died from the virus in Asia, where it has also devastated flocks.
