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