BANGKOK, Sept. 23 (Xinhuanet) -- Thailand on Thursday added three deceased patients to the list of suspected cases of bird flu infection.

   The three patients, including a pair of mother and daughter and a separate boy, passed away with pneumonia symptoms in the northeastern province of Kamphaengphet in past 15 days, said Dr. Kamnuan Ungchoosak, the chief of Communicable Diseases Department of the Public Health Ministry.

   He said the lab test of the three cases would come out in a few days.

   Since the avian influenza rebounded in the kingdom in July, an 18-year-old man has died last month in central Thailand, pushing the kingdom´s bird flu casualty to 9.

   In the first wave of bird flu outbreak at the beginning of this year, eight people in Thailand were killed by the epidemic.

   Another 19 people have died in Vietnam, bringing the Asian death toll to 28.

   Besides, there have been 128 patients in Thailand under observation for possible infection of the disease since early July.

   Now, 114 of the cases have been cleared and the rest are still waiting for the test result.

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