Saturday, December 30, 2006
Family hospitalised with bird flu symptoms after eating sick chickens
HANOI, Dec 30 (Reuters) - Four members of a Vietnamese family have been hospitalised with symptoms of bird flu after eating sick chickens in the country’s south, where the disease re-emerged in poultry earlier this month.
If confirmed, they would be the first reported human infections from the H5N1 bird flu virus in Vietnam since late 2005.
The mother and her three children, aged between 3 and 13, all suffered from high fever, coughing and lung infection. They are being treated at Nam Can Hospital in the southern province of Ca Mau.
“Their samples have been sent for bird flu tests in Ho Chi Minh City and results should be available soon,” an official at the Ca Mau Provincial Animal Health Department said on Saturday.
Source: Reuters