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NEW DELHI: India is investigating its first documented human death from bird flu after an 11-year-old boy succumbed to the disease earlier this month, the health ministry said.The boy lived in Gurgaon outside New Delhi and was also suffering from leukaemia and pneumonia.He was admitted to hospital in the capital on July 2 and died 10 days later from multiple organ failure.Genome sequencing and virus isolation is in process and an epidemiological investigation has been initiated, the ministry said late Wednesday.Avian influenza occurs mainly in birds and poultry, with cases of transmission between humans extremely rare.H5N1 first broke out in 1997, then spread between 2003 and 2011, while H7N

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