HANOI: Health officials say a Vietnamese boy has died of the H5N1 virus. It is the country's third human bird-flu death this year.
Nguyen Huy Nga of Vietnam's Ministry of Health said the3-year-old boy died Thursday at a hospital in Ho Chi Minh City.
Provincial health director Hoang Van Phi said the boy became ill on March 10 after eating a duck that his family had slaughtered at their home in Dong Thap province in southern Vietnam. Dong Thap is some 119 miles (190 kilometers) west of Ho Chi MinhCity.
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