Bird Flu Hits Indonesia, WHO Concerned Over Drug Resistance
Associated Press ^ | Jan 25, 2004 | Daniel Lovering
Posted on 01/25/2004 9:00:45 PM CST by BenLurkin
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - Hundreds of soldiers wearing safety masks, rubber gloves and protective caps fanned out across a central Thai province Sunday on a mission to bury chickens believed to be carrying bird flu. A six-year-old Thai boy died of the disease late Sunday, becoming the country's first confirmed human fatality, as the World Health Organization warned the virus could be resistant to basic human influenza drugs.
Indonesia, meanwhile, became the seventh country in Asia to confirm an outbreak in chickens.
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