Bird flu developments

Dec 4 (Reuters) - The World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed on its Web site on Tuesday that a 24-year-old man from eastern China has died of the H5N1 strain of bird flu.

There have been 207 human deaths globally from the H5N1 strain and 336 confirmed cases of infection since 2003, according to World Health Organisation data.

Here is a chronology of major recent bird flu developments:

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