PESHAWAR, April 26: A 13-year-old boy was quarantined at the Khyber Teaching Hospital on Wednesday after doctors suspected him of suffering from bird flu symptoms. “We received a patient with typical bird flu symptoms. We have isolated him and advised his relatives and the hospital staff to take precautions,” said a doctor.

Umar Said, a daily wage earner, was brought to the hospital on Tuesday night and shifted to the Medical ‘D’ ward on Wednesday.

Doctor said that the boy, who belonged to the Spar Sang village located on the Warsak Road, had not been eating anything for the past five days and had a high fever.

“He had high fever, soar throat and congested chest. We put him in a separate room as a precaution,” the doctors said. He said that some chickens had recently died in his home, located about 1,000 yards away from a poultry farm where hundreds of chicken had died recently.