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Bird flu kills Vietnamese boy
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 17 - 03 - 2008

Bird flu has killed a boy in northern Vietnam, the
fifth human fatality in the country this year, even as more avian
influenza outbreaks have been detected in poultry, DPA quoted officials as saying
Monday.
Do Van Huong, 11, died at a Hanoi hospital Friday after testing
positive for H5N1 two days earlier, according to Nguyen Lap Quyet,
director of the health department of Ha Nam province, where the boy
lived.
Quyet said the boy was admitted to a local hospital in the
province, 50 kilometers south of Hanoi, on March 9 with high fever
and difficulty breathing. He was transferred to Hanoi on February 11
when his conditions became worse.
"The boy's family had 15 chickens, and they ate them in late
February after some of the birds became sick," Quyet said. "Other
members of the family are in stable condition, but we are monitoring
them."
The latest death raised Vietnam's human death toll from bird flu
to five since the beginning of this year, and to 52 since H5N1 first
appeared in the country in late 2003.
In the latest outbreak in poultry, bird flu killed nearly 140
ducks last week at a farm in central Quang Nam province, 860
kilometers south of Hanoi, according to the province's animal health
department Pham Ngoc Anh.
"We have culled the remaining 200 ducks at the farm and have taken
all necessary measures to keep the virus from spreading further to
other farms around," Anh said.
Fresh outbreaks have been detected in 13 provinces throughout
Vietnam since the beginning of this year, prompting authorities to
cull tens of thousands of birds. The virus also killed four
endangered civets in the Cuc Phuong National Park last week.
Last week, the prime minister issued an urgent directive to all
provinces and related ministries to step up measures to combat the
spread of the virus.
The directive urged agencies to restrict illegal smuggling of
poultry and ensure sufficient supplies of medicines in case of an
epidemic.
H5N1 mainly affects poultry and wild birds, but can infect humans
who have close contact with sick fowl. Scientists fear that if it
spreads unchecked, the disease could mutate into a form which could
be transmitted between humans, leading to a worldwide pandemic that
could kill millions.


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