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Bird flu kills a man in northern Vietnam
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 14 - 02 - 2008


Bird flu has killed a man in
northern Vietnam, taking the country's death toll from the
virus to 49, and health officials warned Thursday that the
virus could spread further, AP reported.
The 40-year-old man from Hai Duong province died
Wednesday, six days after being admitted to the national
tropical disease hospital in the capital, Hanoi, said
Nguyen Huy Nga, director of the Ministry of Health's
Preventive Medicine Department.
The man's test results came back positive Sunday for the
dangerous H5N1 virus strain. He was the 49th person to die
of the virus in Vietnam since bird flu began raging across
Asia in late 2003. H5N1 killed a 32-year-old man in
northern Tuyen Quang province in January.
Nga said the latest victim developed flu symptoms on Feb.
2 and was admitted to the Hanoi hospital Feb. 10.
«The danger of the bird flu virus spreading further
remains very high,» Nga said «We have repeatedly urged
people to report sick poultry to animal health authorities
and to refrain from eating sick birds.»
Dong Van Chuc, director of the Department of Animal Health
in Hai Duong, about 60 kilometers (40 miles) southeast of
Hanoi, said nine of the man's 12 fighting cocks had died
since late January.
Chuc said the man's wife cooked the dead chickens and
shared them with a relative, then cremated the three sick
birds, meaning that animal health officials could not test
any of their flock for the bird flu virus.
No members of the man's family have fallen ill, but health
authorities were testing them and close neighbors for the
virus, Chuc said.
Bird flu remains hard for people to catch, but health
experts worry the virus could mutate into a form that
passes easily among humans, sparking a pandemic. So far,
most human cases have been linked to contact with infected
birds. The World Health Organization says at least 226
people have died worldwide from the virus. That number does
not include the latest death in Vietnam.


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