Thailand has first human-to-human case of influenza

The sixth was 50-year-old mother who just returned from the US and spread the virus to her child. Information about the child who was the seventh infected person in Thailand was not revealed.

The source said the case of mother and her child is the first of the infection from human to human.

The mother was wife of a man who was also infected by the influenza that hit at least 66 countries with 19,273 people known to have been infected.

The eighth patient was a woman who just returned from the United Sates.