BMJ  2004;329:816 (9 October), doi:10.1136/bmj.329.7470.816

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Death toll from bird flu rises: A Thai girl, aged 9, who contracted H5N1 bird flu from infected chickens that her family raised, has died. It is the 11th death from H5N1 in the country and the 31st in Asia. More than 80 people in Thailand are being tested for the disease after developing flu-like symptoms.

German hospital pays 250 000 in compensation: The University Hospital of Giessen, Germany, will pay compensation of 250 000 (£172 150; $307 225) and a lifelong monthly pension of 800 to a severely disabled girl and her parents. The girl was infected as a premature baby in the hospital's paediatric intensive care unit with Klebsiella oxytoca in 1997. The bacterial outbreak was attributed to the use of heavily diluted disinfectant. The parents sued the hospital after doctors published a letter about the outbreak in the Lancet ( BMJ 2000;321: 530[Free Full Text]).

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