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SHOTLIST ++QUALITY AS INCOMING++ 1. Various of exterior of Khyber Teaching Hospital 2. Close up of a newspaper which reads, 'bird flu kills two in Peshawar' 3. Setup shot of the medical superintendent, Dr. Khushdil Khan, at the hospital 4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Dr Khushdil Khan, Medical Superintendent at Khyber Teaching Hospital in Peshawar: "No doubt we have received four cases they came with symptoms of fever, cough and chest infection, they were suspect cases of bird flu but not confirm cases, they were treated here in KTH (khyber teaching hospital) two of them were survived and two expired, the blood samples of all the four cases have been sent to NIH (National Institute for Health) but the result is still awaited, so we cant exclude or include the case of bird flu until and unless there is laboratory diagnosis, we can not say that these were the cases of bird flu" 5. Cutaway of the isolation ward in the hospital 6. SOUNDBITE: (English) Dr Khushdil Khan, Medical Superintendent at Khyber Teaching Hospital in Peshawar: "They were all four brothers belonging to the same family. The elder brother Isthiaq (one of the victims) he was DVA, that is a veterinary doctor, he was employed some where in poultry farm in Abbotabad, the other three brothers they were doing some other things, two of them were students they were not employee in poultry industry, probably, these three got infection from the eldest one who is employed in a poultry business." 7. Various of the isolation ward in the hospital STORYLINE Pakistani authorities were testing the country's first suspected fatalities from the H5N1 strain of bird flu after two members of the same family died after complaining of fever, cough and chest infection. Four brothers of the same family were admitted to the Khyber Teaching Hospital, two died and two were released. The Medical Superintendent at the Khyber Teaching hospital in Peshawar, Dr Khushdil Khan, confirmed on Friday that one of the brothers was a veterinary doctor on a poultry farm in a nearby city of Abbotabad, he said, "probably, these three got infection from the eldest one who is employed in a poultry business." However, the Dr. Khan was careful about blaming the deaths on bird flu, "the blood samples of all the four cases have been sent to NIH (National Institute for Health) but the result is still awaited, so we cant exclude or include the case of bird flu until and unless there is laboratory diagnosis" he said. The victims, from northwestern Mansehra district, were hospitalised in Peshawar over the weekend with fever and flu-like symptoms. Two out of the four brothers admitted, died in the isolation ward of the Khyber Teaching Hospital on Monday, said Khushdil Khan, the hospital's medical superintendent, while the remaining two were discharged. Blood samples were sent to the Health Ministry in Islamabad for clinical analysis and were being tested for H5N1, but there was as yet no confirmation of the cause of the deaths, Khan said. He said the U.N. World Health Organisation had been informed. WHO in Islamabad referred inquiries about the case to the Health Ministry where officials declined comment Friday. H5N1 and other forms of bird flu have hit Pakistan poultry farms in the past two years but there have been no confirmed cases of humans contracting the disease. WHO has recorded more than 200 deaths from H5N1 since 2003, mostly in Southeast Asia and China. You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/28fd03939f8ddf2663f76ed6e92945d7 Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork