DHAKA, May 22: The US Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has diagnosed a 16-month-old Bangladeshi baby as being stricken by H5N1, the virus that causes avian influenza.

The CDC Atlanta informed the Bangladesh government after detecting the virus, according to the director of disease control, Moazzem Hossain, who is also a line director of the CDC.

He also said that a joint team, comprising experts from the Bangladesh directorate-general of health services and international centre for diarrhoeal diseases research, saw the child on Thursday and found that he had been fully cured.—Correspondent