Fifth person died from bird flu in Egypt on Thursday and experts in Asia expressed concern that poorer countries were unable to put up a co-ordinated fight against the rapid spread of the H5N1 virus.

The woman died in a Cairo hospital soon after the World Health Organisation confirmed she was the 13th person to be diagnosed with bird flu in Egypt. That would bring the global human toll from the disease to 206 cases, with 114 deaths.

Tests at a WHO laboratory confirmed H5N1 in birds in the West African nation of Ivory Coast, and officials there said they were putting extra control measures into place.

Nigeria, Niger, Cameroon and Burkina Faso had already confirmed outbreaks of H5N1 bird flu this year, but so far no human infections had been found.

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