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Pakistan has recorded its first human death from bird flu and six other people have been infected with the deadly H5N1 virus over the last two months, a senior Health Ministry official said yesterday.

"Seven in total. One died and six other people were infected with the H5N1 virus,'' Federal Health Secretary Khushnood Akhtar Lashari told Reuters. "It was confirmed by blood tests."

A World Health Organisation (WHO) team will arrive in Pakistan in the next few days.Some 340 people worldwide are known to have contracted the disease which has killed more than 200 since 2003, WHO says.Indonesia has the heaviest toll, with 115 human cases including 92 deaths, followed by Vietnam with 100 cases and 46 deaths.