Turkish child tested for suspected bird flu dies ANKARA, Jan. 1 (Xinhuanet) -- A Turkish child who had been tested for possible infection of the bird flu disease died in hospital on Sunday, semi-official Anatolia news agency reported. He was among six people including five children and a middle-age woman who have been sent to the hospital over Saturday and Sunday for medical treatment of symptoms of high fever, coughing and bleeding in throat. But Anatolia cited doctors as saying that there was no evidence that the boy died of bird flu and that tests of the six patients, all from Dogubayazit town, for possible infection of the deadly disease have not been finished yet. Last Tuesday, the Turkish Ministry of Agriculture said that some dead chickens had been tested positive for an H5 variant of avian flu in the eastern Aralik town, which is very close to Dogubayazit, and that parts of Aralik had been put under quarantine.
ANKARA, Jan. 1 (Xinhuanet) -- A Turkish child who had been tested for possible infection of the bird flu disease died in hospital on Sunday, semi-official Anatolia news agency reported.
He was among six people including five children and a middle-age woman who have been sent to the hospital over Saturday and Sunday for medical treatment of symptoms of high fever, coughing and bleeding in throat.
But Anatolia cited doctors as saying that there was no evidence that the boy died of bird flu and that tests of the six patients, all from Dogubayazit town, for possible infection of the deadly disease have not been finished yet.
Last Tuesday, the Turkish Ministry of Agriculture said that some dead chickens had been tested positive for an H5 variant of avian flu in the eastern Aralik town, which is very close to Dogubayazit, and that parts of Aralik had been put under quarantine.
