Vietnam reports human bird flu
23/11/2005 10:00  - (SA)  

Vietnam reports bird flu death Bird flu kills 1 in Vietnam Bird flu death toll reaches 61 Vietnam starts mass vaccination Bird flu death toll reaches 41

Hanoi - A 15-year-old boy in Vietnam's northern port city of Haiphong has tested positive for the H5 bird flu virus, says a health ministry official on Wednesday.

Tran Duc Long of the ministry said: "We have identified the type A flu virus H5. We are waiting for results of the tests in order to determine the precise strain of the virus."

The boy was in a stable condition in hospital. The H5N1 strain of the virus had ravaged poultry and killed more than 60 people across Asia, 42 of them in Vietnam.

 

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