Bird flu virus claims 13th victim Agencies Tuesday February 3, 2004 A deadly strain of bird flu today took its 13th life when a seven-year-old Thai boy died in Bangkok after having tried to fight off the virus for more than a month. The boy, named by government officials as Virat Phraphong, from the chicken farming province of Suphanburi, had been suffering from pneumonia for a month before being put on a respirator at the Thai capital's children's hospital. Officials said that the dead boy's twin brother, who had briefly been hospitalised with suspected bird flu, had turned out not...
