The bird flu virus has killed a nine-year-old girl in Thailand, raising the country's death toll from the disease to 11.
Health officials say the girl had touched dead chickens at her home.
Her death takes to 31 the number of people killed in Asia since bird flu swept through much of the continent early this year. The other 20 people were Vietnamese.
Tens of millions of fowl have been slaughtered in the effort to eradicate the disease.
For a few months it looked as if the disease was being defeated, but it sprang up again in Thailand and Vietnam in July.
