Article: Bird flu fears sweep Thailand despite prime minister's denial of confirmed human case

SUTIN WANNABOVORN, Associated Press Writer
AP Worldstream
01-22-2004
Dateline: BANGKOK, Thailand
Bird flu fears swept Thailand on Thursday after a high-profile senator claimed that a seriously ill boy was confirmed as its first human case and suggested a coverup, partly to save the country's multibillion dollar chicken export sector.

Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra said however it would be days before lab tests could show whether the 7-year-old child was a victim of the virus that has killed five people in Vietnam.

The public health minister denied any coverup. For days Thaksin's government had dismissed claims by farmers that bird flu had infiltrated Thailand.

Politicians outside the ...

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