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Thai Stocks Plunge on Reported Human Link in Spread of Bird-Flu Virus.

Bangkok Post (Bangkok, Thailand)

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Byline: Nuntawun Polkuamdee

Feb. 3--Thai shares continued to slide yesterday, falling 4.52 percent in relatively thin trade as investors dumped shares on further worries over the bird flu.

Fears that the bird flu was now able to be transmitted from person to person helped spur a broad selloff of shares in the market. The World Health Organisation has expressed concern about a possible mutation of the bird flu, although no confirmed cases have yet been discovered.

The Stock Exchange of Thailand index closed at 667.33 points, down 31.57 points, on trade worth 24.36 billion baht. Leading trade were the banking sector, down 2.6 percent; energy, off ...

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