A one-year-old boy has been diagnosed with the lethal H5N1 strain of bird flu in Bangkok, Thailand`s director general of disease control has said.
Tests confirmed the boy had the virus but he was expected to make a full recovery, Thawat Sunthrajarn said.

Of the 21 people who have contracted bird flu in Thailand, 13 have died.

Scores of people and thousands of fowl have died of bird flu since 2003, and there are fears of a pandemic if the virus mutates to pass between humans.

So far, all the humans killed are believed to have contracted the virus through contact with infected birds.

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