SWITZERLAND: Bird flu kills five
published: Wednesday | March 22, 2006

GENEVA (Reuters):

BIRD FLU has killed five young people in Azerbaijan, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said yesterday, adding it was investigating whether some of the victims could have been infected collecting feathers from dead swans.

Confirmation of the deaths in Azerbaijan, which lies at the crossroads between Europe and Asia, takes the WHO toll from the virus to 103 since it re-emerged in late 2003.

Egypt reported its fourth suspected human case over the past week.