March 8, 2006
BBC.co.uk

China reports 10th bird flu death

A child in south-east China has become the 10th person in the country to die of bird flu, state media has reported. The nine-year-old girl from Zhejiang province died on Monday, according to Xinhua news agency. Officials told the WHO that she was suffering from the virulent H5N1 strain, according to the AP agency. She is the second Chinese person to die of bird flu in less than a week. A 32-year-old man in the southern province of Guangdong died on Thursday.