Vietnam reports 3 new suspected human bird flu cases

[Niko]

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</td> </tr> </tbody></table> Two people were admitted Monday with distinct clinical signs of bird flu, doctors at Hanoi?s National Institute for Tropical Diseases said. </td></tr><tr> <td align="left" valign="top">

Samples from the two Thai Nguyen province residents were being tested for the deadly H5N1 virus strain, they said.

It has infected two people in the country recently and killed 42 since 2003. One of the two worked for a slaughterhouse in Hanoi and was admitted to the same institute May 26.

His condition was improving, doctors said.

Bird flu has resurfaced among poultry in 14 provinces and Can Tho city since last month.

The health ministry sought the cooperation of health and veterinary centers Monday in monitoring bird flu outbreaks among poultry.

The Animal Health Department said 129 million birds had been vaccinated against the disease this year with 41 out of the country?s 64 provinces and cities completing the first phase of a vaccination campaign.

Agriculture Minister Cao Duc Phat has called for targeting all waterfowl flocks.

Ducks and geese can carry the virus without showing they are sick, making it harder to detect. They then spread the virus through their droppings as they roam from one rice field to another.

The virus has infected more than 300 people in 12 countries, 187 of whom have died, the World Health Organization has said.

Most human cases have involved people in contact with infected fowl. Experts fear if an easy means of transmission between humans develops, there could be a pandemic affecting millions.

Reported by N.Son ? Translated by The Vinh

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Published: 05 June, 2007, 10:52:04 (GMT+7)
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[hawkeye]

Vietnam reports 3 new suspected human bird flu cases

Vietnam reports 3 new suspected human bird flu cases

HANOI, June 7 (Xinhua) -- Three Vietnamese people have been hospitalized for being suspected of having contracted bird flu, local newspaper Labor reported Thursday.

Specimens of the people, admitted to the Tropical Disease Hospital in Hanoi capital on June 5, are being tested for bird flu virus strain H5N1, the paper quoted the hospital director Nguyen Duc Hien as saying.

The testing results will come out in two or three days, he said, noting that the people are being isolated.

Vietnam and China have recently coordinated on conducting a rehearsal on preventing bird flu outbreaks among humans along border areas, as the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned risk of a worldwide bird flu pandemic with mutated H5N1, said Nguyen Huy Nga, head of the Preventive Medicine Department under the Vietnamese Health Ministry.

Since late May, Vietnam has confirmed two local men, one from northern Thai Nguyen province and other from northern Vinh Phuc province, as the two latest cases of bird flu infections in the country since mid-November 2005.

Vietnam has reported a total of 95 human cases of bird flu infections, including 42 fatalities, since the disease started to hit the country in December 2003. However, the WHO has yet to confirm the two latest cases.

[Laidback Al]

Re: Vietnam reports 3 new suspected human bird flu cases

Are we sure that these are three new individuals. Two of them could be the suspected individuals that were report on June 4 in the other Vietnam thread.

http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/showpost.php?p=84188&postcount=34

[Sally Furniss]

Re: Vietnam reports 3 new suspected human bird flu cases

The post is now added to this thread, at the top.

[Theresa42]

Re: Vietnam reports 3 new suspected human bird flu cases

Are we sure that these are three new individuals. Two of them could be the suspected individuals that were report on June 4 in the other Vietnam thread.

http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/sho...8&postcount=34

Could be -- although this recent article says that these three were admitted to hospital on June 5, while the other two were admitted on June 4.