Thu Mar 19, 2009 10:27am EDT
HANOI, March 19 (Reuters) - A three-year-old boy infected with the H5N1 bird flu strain has died in southern Vietnam, a state-run online newspaper reported on Thursday, the country's third human fatality from the poultry virus this year.
The boy was admitted to a Ho Chi Minh City hospital early this week suffering from coughing, headaches and vomiting and doctors there confirmed he had contracted the H5N1 virus, Vietnam Net (www.vietnamnet.vn) said.
The boy, who had fallen sick after his family in the Mekong Delta province of Dong Thap ate duck congee, died on Thursday afternoon, the report quoted a relative and doctors at the hospital as saying.
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Source: http://www.reuters.com/article/middleeastCrisis/idUSHAN446102 
