YANGON, Myanmar (AP): Myanmar has confirmed the country's first case of a human being infected by bird flu, state media reported Saturday. 

The New Light of Myanmar newspaper said the World Health Organization had confirmed that a 7-year-old girl from Keng Tung in northeastern Myanmar had been infected with the deadly H5N1 virus. 

She was hospitalized on Nov. 27 and released on Dec. 12 after being treated with the drug Tamiflu, it reported. 

According to WHO, there have been 340 case of bird flu in humans since 2003, and 208 of them have been fatal.