Bird flu spreading again in Asia

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Jakarta-An indonesian hospital was on Monday overwhelmed with patients suffering bird flue symptoms as the disease spread further in Vietnam and Thailand reported its first case in poultry in six months. But farm ministry officials in Japan said there was no evidence of the disease spreading there following confirmation at the weekend of a bird flu outbreak at a poultry farm in the southwest in which 3,800 chickens died. A recent spurt of infections of the H5N1 bird flue virus, which re-emerged in Asia in late 2003, has alarmed health officials