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Ex-Thai health minister gets H1N1 flu

(Agencies)
Updated: 2009-08-07 15:21

BANGKOK: A hospital director says a former Thai health minister has contracted H1N1 flu and is responding well to treatment.

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Chamaree Cheupetcharasopon of Bumrungrad International Hospital in Bangkok says Sudarat Keyuraphan is being treated with Tamiflu and that her condition is improving.

Forty-eight-year-old Sudarat was hospitalized Wednesday after tests confirmed she had the H1N1 virus.

Chamaree said Friday that Sudarat was "coughing a little but no longer has fever."

Sudarat was health minister from 2001 to 2005.

Thailand's health ministry has reported 81 H1N1-flu deaths and estimates 350,000-500,000 cases, most of whom have recovered without severe symptoms.