BANGKOK: A man suspected of having bird flu died yesterday and two boys have been infected, the Thai government said, while Cambodia became the sixth Asian nation with a confirmed outbreak of the deadly disease.
Avian influenza also has swept through South Korea, Japan, Vietnam and Taiwan, infecting millions of chickens. There have been five confirmed human deaths, all of them in Vietnam.
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