Turkish family suffers second bird flu death.

(From Guardian Unlimited)

The sister of the Turkish boy who was the first victim of bird flu outside China and south-east Asia also died of the disease today.

Fatma Kocyigit, 15, died in a hospital in the eastern city of Van, four days after the death of her 14-year-old brother, Mehmet Ali, the Anatolia news agency reported.

Her 11-year-old sister, Hulya, who is also suspected of having bird flu, was in a serious condition, according to doctors. Another 19 people, many of them from Dogubeyazit where Mehmet and Fatma lived, have been taken to hospital in three towns in the region, according to local reports.

People in the remote, rural area …