Vietnam reports fresh human bird flu case
A student is under treatment at a Hanoi hospital for suspected bird flu, a national anti-bird flu committee meeting heard Wednesday.
Dr Nguyen Hai Yen of the National Institute for Clinical Research of Tropical Diseases said the student’s samples were being tested for the H5N1 virus strain, which has killed 45 people in Vietnam since 2003, three of them in the past two months.
The student was transferred to the institute from a hospital in Thanh Hoa province where he had been treated for 12 days.
He had “typical” bird flu symptoms though initial inquiries suggested he had had no contact with poultry, Yen said.
Bird flu story source: Thanhnien news (Vietnam)
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