Hanoi - Vietnamese authorities believe a woman who died last week may have been infected with avian influenza, state media said Monday.

The state-run newspaper Vietnam News reported the 26-year-old woman was admitted to a hospital in Soc Trang Province, in the country's Mekong Delta, on March 16 with symptoms of headache, high fever and respiratory difficulties.

Her condition worsened and she died on Friday.

The head of the community health centre where the patient was initially treated reportedly said she had eaten a sick duck about a month ago.

Hanoi  - A Vietnamese boy has tested positive for the avian influenza virus, the fourth confirmed human case of bird flu in Vietnam this year, local media reported Thursday.

A boy from the south-western province of Dong Thap was admitted Monday at the Ho Chi Minh City Hospital for Tropical Diseases with high fever and respiratory difficulties, the Tuoi Tre newspaper said.

Nguyen Van Chau, director of the Ho Chi Minh City Health Department, told the paper that the patient tested positive for bird flu Wednesday.

Panigatha (West Bengal), Mar 16: A month after authorities claimed that it was contained, bird flu has resurfaced in West Bengal''s Darjeeling district.

Culling operations in West Bengal to contain the third outbreak had ended barely a month ago.

The epicentre has been detected as Bora Changa in the same region.

West Bengal officials said they had begun culling about 11,000 poultry after the fourth outbreak was confirmed on Sunday near Siliguri town.

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Kathmandu  - Nepalese authorities Saturday confirmed the second outbreak of bird flu in the eastern part of the country.

The new cases of the deadly strain of H5N1 virus were discovered after 149 chickens died at a poultry farm in Saranamati village of Jhapa district, about 450 kilometres east of Kathmandu, government officials said.

Officials sent samples of the dead fowl to England for tests.

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