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Vietnam: HUMAN H5N1 Cases Feb 13+
Feb 13, 9:12 PM EST
Bird flu kills a man in northern Vietnam
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) -- Bird flu has killed a man in northern Vietnam in the second human bird flu death this year, health officials said Thursday, warning that the virus could spread further.
The 40-year-old man from Hai Duong province, about 60 kilometers (40 miles) southeast of Hanoi, died Wednesday, six days after being admitted to the national tropical disease hospital in Hanoi, said Nguyen Huy Nga, director of preventive medicine at the Health Ministry.
Test results on Sunday came back positive for the dangerous H5N1 strain of the virus. It was the country's 49th death reported since the virus began raging across Asia in late 2003.
HANOI, Feb. 14 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam's Health Ministry confirmed that the country's latest human case of bird flu infection was a 40-year-old man from northern Hai Duong province who died on Feb. 13 after four days of treatment in Hanoi capital, local newspaper Young People reported Thursday.
The man slaughtered two dead chickens for meal before exhibiting bird flu symptoms early this month.
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Bird flu kills second Vietnamese this year-report
14 Feb 2008 02:25:23 GMT
Source: Reuters
HANOI, Feb 14 (Reuters) - Bird flu has killed a 40-year-old Vietnamese man who might have been infected after eating sick chickens, state-run media said on Thursday.
His death is the second in Vietnam from avian influenza this year.
The man died in a Hanoi hospital on Wednesday four days after being treated for lung and kidney failure, the Liberation Saigon newspaper quoted the hospital's deputy director, Nguyen Hong Ha, as saying.
The Health Ministry reported that tests confirmed the man from the northern province of Hai Duong, 50 km (31 miles) southeast of Hanoi, had the H5N1 virus.
It brought to 49 the country's toll from bird flu.
Health officials have been monitoring the man's relatives since last week after he and his family ate two chickens that had died from unknown causes. Dead chickens have also been reported in the neighbourhood.
Last month, bird flu killed a 32-year-old man from an ethnic minority group in the northern province of Tuyen Quang.
H5N1 remains mainly a virus of birds, but experts fear it could mutate into a form easily transmitted from person to person and sweep the world, possibly killing millions.
Not including the latest death, the H5N1 virus has killed 226 people among the 360 known cases. Most of the deaths are in Indonesia, followed by Vietnam, World Health Organization figures show. (Reporting by Ho Binh Minh; Editing by David Fogarty)
HANOI : Bird flu killed a Vietnamese man this week, the country's second victim of the H5N1 strain in 2008, raising the national death toll from the virus to 49, health officials said Thursday.
The 40-year-old man died of pneumonia and kidney failure Wednesday at the National Contagious and Tropical Diseases Hospital in Hanoi, said deputy director Nguyen Hong Ha.
"The man from Hai Duong province died of H5N1 type-A influenza," said Nguyen Huy Nga, head of the Preventive Medicine Department at the Ministry of Health. "This is 103rd case of bird flu and the 49th death from it in Vietnam."
The man had been treated at home and in a provincial hospital after having handled chicken, said Nga, adding that people who were in close contact with him were now also being tested for bird flu and given the drug Tamiflu.
Northern Vietnam has been in the grip of a month-long cold snap that has aided the spread of respiratory diseases because immune systems are weakened and people spend more time indoors together, experts warn.
Last week's traditional Tet lunar New Year, the country's biggest festival, was seen as a particularly high-risk period for the spread of the virus because the movement of poultry products, and of people, rises sharply.
Bird flu outbreaks among poultry have hit in recent weeks in the northern province of Thai Nguyen and in central Quang Binh, authorities have said.
On January 18 bird flu killed a 32-year-old man from Tuyen Quang province northwest of Hanoi. He had suffered severe pneumonia symptoms after reportedly preparing and eating poultry he found dead near his house.
The virus is mainly an animal disease, but scientists fear it could mutate to easily jump from human to human, sparking a deadly global pandemic.
The World Health Organisation has so far confirmed 360 human cases of H5N1 bird flu worldwide, of whom 226 have died, not including the latest Vietnam fatality, according to WHO figures published online. - AFP/ch
HANOI, Feb. 14 (Xinhua) -- A man from Vietnam's northern Ninh Binh province has been tested positive to bird flu virus strain H5N1, raising the total number of bird flu patients in the country since December 2003 to 104, Central Vietnam Television reported Thursday.
The 27-year-old man named Hoang Van Doan, admitted to the Bach Mai Hospital in Hanoi capital on Feb. 12, currently needs respirator assistance. He slaughtered chickens for meal on Feb. 5.
Vietnam's Health Ministry confirmed a 40-year-old man from northern Hai Duong province, who died on Tuesday after four days of treatment in the capital city, was infected with H5N1. The man slaughtered two dead chickens for meal before exhibiting bird flu symptoms early this month. He was hospitalized on Feb. 8 when his lung and kidneys were damaged.
Late last month the ministry confirmed that a 32-year-old man named Tran Van Dong from northern Tuyen Quang province died from bird flu on Jan. 18. He slaughtered and ate dead fowls raised by his family for meal.
In late December 2007, after detecting no human cases of bird flu infections for nearly four months, the ministry confirmed that a four-year-old boy from northern Son La province died from bird flu on Dec. 16, 2007.
To date, Vietnam has confirmed a total of 104 human cases of bird flu infections, including 49 fatalities, since the disease started to hit the country in December 2003. Vietnam currently has two localities having poultry being hit by bird flu: northern Thai Nguyen and central Quang Binh province, according to the Department of Animal Health under the country's Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development. Bird flu outbreaks in Vietnam have killed and led to the forced culling of dozens of millions of fowls in the country, the department said.
Bird flu kills one, infects another in Vietnam
14 Feb 2008 16:29:27 GMT
Source: Reuters
(Updates with a new confirmed human case)
By Ho Binh Minh
HANOI, Feb 14 (Reuters) - Bird flu has killed a 40-year-old Vietnamese man and infected another after both came in contact with infected chickens, state media said on Thursday.
The man died in a Hanoi hospital on Wednesday four days after being treated for lung and kidney failure, the Liberation Saigon newspaper quoted the hospital's deputy director, Nguyen Hong Ha, as saying.
The Health Ministry said tests confirmed the man from the northern province of Hai Duong, 50 km (31 miles) southeast of Hanoi, had the H5N1 strain of the virus.
It was Vietnam's second death from avian influenza this year and brought the country's toll from bird flu to 49.
Health officials have been monitoring the man's relatives since last week after he and his family ate two chickens that had died from unknown causes. Dead chickens have also been reported in the neighbourhood.
Doctors also confirmed another 27-year-old man had been infected by the H5N1 virus and was now in critical condition, state-run Vietnam Television said in its evening news bulletin.
The Health Ministry said the man from the northern province of Ninh Binh slaughtered two sick chickens on Jan. 31 and fell ill two days later with pneumonia symptoms. He was taken to Bach Mai hospital in Hanoi on Tuesday.
The patient, Vietnam's third human bird flu case this year, was now on a respirator, the television footage showed. Last month, bird flu killed a 32-year-old man in the northern province of Tuyen Quang.
H5N1 remains mainly a virus of birds, but experts fear it could mutate into a form easily transmitted from person to person and sweep the world, possibly killing millions.
Not including the latest death, the H5N1 virus has killed 226 people among the 360 known cases. Most of the deaths are in Indonesia, followed by Vietnam, World Health Organization figures show.
A man in the northern Hai Duong Province died Wednesday due to the type-A influenza virus H5N1, reported the Ministry of Health Wednesday.
The 40-year-old man was admitted to the National Institute of Infectious and Tropical Diseases last Friday with serious pneumonia and multi-organ failure.
He had suffered the symptoms for six days before being hospitalized at the institute.
Epidemiological investigations revealed chickens had perished around his house and the victim had reportedly plucked two dead chickens for consumption.
In addition to Hai Duong, Quang Binh, Thai Nguyen, Tra Vinh and Tuyen Quang provinces have witnessed bird flu recurrence since late December.
A man in northern Viet Nam’s Hai Duong province died on Wednesday from the influenza virus H5N1 type-A, becoming the third person to die of the deadly virus since the beginning of this year in the Southeast Asian nation, confirmed the Ministry of Health.
Two health officers are disinfecting an infected site.
The 40-year-old man whose name is withheld was the 49th person to die of the virus in Viet Nam since bird flu began raging across Asia in late 2003. H5N1 killed a 32-year-old man in northern Tuyen Quang province in January.
This latest victim had been admitted to the National Institute of Infectious and Tropical Diseases in Ha Noi last Friday with serious pneumonia and multiple-organ failure.
Doctor Nguyen Hong Ha, deputy director of the Institute said this patient had contracted the virus 6 days prior to being hospitalized.
Dong Van Chuc, director of the Department of Animal Health in Hai Duong, about 60 kilometers southeast of Ha Noi, said nine of the man's 12 fighting cocks had died since late January.
Epidemiological investigations revealed chickens had perished around his house and the victim had reportedly plucked two dead chickens and cooked them for consumption. Chuc said the man's wife cooked the dead chickens and shared them with a relative, then cremated the three sick birds. No other members of the man's family have fallen ill, but health authorities were testing them and close neighbors for the virus, Chuc added. Local authorities have disinfected the vicinity and 200 wells with Chloramines B.
Bird flu still remains hard for people to catch, but health experts worry the virus could mutate into a form that passes easily among humans, sparking a pandemic. So far, most human cases have been linked to physical contact with infected birds.
The World Health Organization earlier reported at least 226 people have died worldwide from the virus.
Meanwhile, Hai Duong, Quang Binh, Thai Nguyen, Tra Vinh and Tuyen Quang provinces in Viet Nam have witnessed the recurrence of bird flu since late December.
According to deputy head of the National Animal Health Department Dau Ngoc Hao on Wednesday, bird flu had been detected in a flock of 700 ducks in the northern Thai Nguyen province. In addition, over 100 chickens and nearly 2,000 ducks belonging to two families in Tra Xuan and Binh Hoa communes in the central Quang Ngai province have died recently from unknown causes.
Tests are being taken to determine the cause, reported Vo Thanh Tan, head of the province’s Animal Health Department, on Wednesday. http://www.saigon-gpdaily.com.vn/Health/2008/2/61464/
VietNamNet Bridge - The Health Ministry has confirmed the second bird flu related death in 2008, a 40-year-old man from the Northern Province of Hai Duong.
The victim died at noon on February 13 after five days at the National Hospital for Infectious and Tropical Diseases.
He was hospitalized when his lungs, kidney and several other internal organs became seriously infected after eating chicken; his house was surrounded by ill and dead poultry.
The Hai Duong Preventive Health Center has decontaminated the entire area around and members of his family have been administered Tamiflu, an anti-H5N1 medecine
Three weeks ago the Ministry of Health announced the first bird flu related death in 2008. The victim was Tran Van Dong, 32, from the Northern Province of Tuyen Quang.
Hanoi - A man suffering from bird flu died Friday morning, the second death in two days and the third since the beginning of the year, a Vietnamese official said. The 27-year-old man had been admitted to a hospital in Ninh Binh province, 120 kilometers south of Hanoi, on Monday, and transferred to Hanoi the following day, according to Dinh Quoc Su, head of Ninh Binh's Animal Health Department. The Ministry of Health announced late Thursday that the man had tested positive for the H5N1 avian flu virus. Su said Doan and his family had eaten chicken bought at a local market during Tet, the Vietnamese lunar New Year's festival, which began on February 7. He said local authorities had disinfected Doan's neighborhood and were trying to find out exactly where he had bought the chicken. "Neither Doan's wife nor his 4-year-old son have shown any bird flu-like symptoms, but doctors are monitoring them," Su said. Bird flu killed a 41-year-old man from northern Hai Duong province on Wednesday and a 32-year-old man from northern Tuyen Quang province in January. The latest death has raised the overall toll from H5N1 in Vietnam to 50 since bird flu first appeared in the country in 2003. "The risk that bird flu will spread among poultry, and also to humans, is very high now," Nguyen Huy Nga, head of Vietnam's Preventive Medicine Department, said Thursday. "The weather is cold and a large number of poultry have been transported and slaughtered since Tet.
Second H5N1 Confirmed Case in Northern Vietnam This Week Recombinomics Commentary 15:01
February 14, 2008
The 27-year-old man named Hoang Van Doan, admitted to the Bach Mai Hospital in Hanoi capital on Feb. 12, currently needs respirator assistance. He slaughtered chickens for meal on Feb. 5.
Vietnam's Health Ministry confirmed a 40-year-old man from northern Hai Duong province, who died on Tuesday after four days of treatment in the capital city, was infected with H5N1. The man slaughtered two dead chickens for meal before exhibiting bird flu symptoms early this month. He was hospitalized on Feb. 8 when his lung and kidneys were damaged.
The above comments describe the second confirmed H5N1 case this week from northern Vietnam. Both patients had increased risk of H5N1 infections earlier this month. However, the independent infections of the two patients signal a more efficient transmission of H5N1 to humans in northern Vietnam.
It is likely that both victims have been infected by the Fujian strain (clade 2.3) of H5N1. The recent prior cases beginning in late December, 2007 have been fatal and coincide with wild birds deaths in Hong Kong, which are also likely linked to the Fujian strain of H5N1.
Sequence data from the Hong Kong and northern Vietnam isolates would be useful.
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Second bird flu victim dies; man from Ninh Binh infected
(15-02-2008)
HA NOI — A man has become Viet Nam’s second bird-flu victim to die this year after eating chickens that he found dead.
And a third man was confirmed yesterday to have been infected with the deadly H5N1 virus, said Health Ministry’s Preventive Medicine and Environment Department director Dr Nguyen Huy Nga.
Nguyen Van San, 40, from Gia Loc District, Hai Duong Province, 60km south-east of Ha Noi, died at Ha Noi’s Hospital of Clinical Medicine and Tropical Diseases on Wednesday, four days after being admitted.
He was rushed to the hospital in a critical situation six days after his family ate two dead chickens.
No other family members were affected.
Samples taken from the dead man showed positive to the deadly H5N1 virus.
So did tests of samples from the third victim of the year, Hoang Van Doan, 27, from northern Ninh Binh Province, about 90km south of Ha Noi, who is in Ha Noi’s Bach Mai Hospital.
He was admitted on Tuesday with blood poisoning and pneumonia after he slaughtered and ate chicken during Tet.
Dr Nguyen Huy Nga said both men had underestimated the threat of bird flu.
The Health Ministry has warned of the possible wide-spread return of bird flu in the prevailing cold spell and instructed healthcare officials to strictly monitor patients suspected to have been infected, especially those with high fever.
The ministry also advised people to eat only well-cooked food, wash their hands before meals and never to eat dead birds.
Viet Nam’s first bird flu death for the year was confirmed last month after a 32-year-old man in northern Tuyen Quang Province’s Son Duong District ate ducks infected with the virus.
Of 104 people infected with bird flu in Viet Nam since it was first reported in late 2003, 49 have died.
Indonesia has reported 127 infections with 103 deaths. — VNS
Hanoi - A man suffering from bird flu died Friday morning, the second death in two days and the third since the beginning of the year, a Vietnamese official said. The 27-year-old man had been admitted to a hospital in Ninh Binh province, 120 kilometers south of Hanoi, on Monday, and transferred to Hanoi the following day, according to Dinh Quoc Su, head of Ninh Binh's Animal Health Department.
The Ministry of Health announced late Thursday that the man had tested positive for the H5N1 avian flu virus.
Su said Doan and his family had eaten chicken bought at a local market during Tet, the Vietnamese lunar New Year's festival, which began on February 7.
He said local authorities had disinfected Doan's neighborhood and were trying to find out exactly where he had bought the chicken.
"Neither Doan's wife nor his 4-year-old son have shown any bird flu-like symptoms, but doctors are monitoring them," Su said.
Bird flu killed a 41-year-old man from northern Hai Duong province on Wednesday and a 32-year-old man from northern Tuyen Quang province in January. The latest death has raised the overall toll from H5N1 in Vietnam to 50 since bird flu first appeared in the country in 2003.
"The risk that bird flu will spread among poultry, and also to humans, is very high now," Nguyen Huy Nga, head of Vietnam's Preventive Medicine Department, said Thursday. "The weather is cold and a large number of poultry have been transported and slaughtered since Tet."
Nga said authorities have warned the population not to eat sick or dead poultry, and to see a doctor immediately in case of cough or fever.
H5N1 mainly affects poultry and wild birds, but can infect humans who have close contact with sick fowl. Scientists fear that if it spreads unchecked, the disease could mutate into a form which could be transmitted between humans, leading to a worldwide pandemic that could kill millions.
Another bird flu patient dies
15/02/2008 -- 8:46 PM
Ha Noi (VNA) – A man from northern Ninh Binh province died of bird flu on February 14 in a Ha Noi hospital.
The death of the 27-year-old brings to four the number of fatalities from the H5N1 virus in Viet Nam out of the five cases tested positive for the virus since early 2008.
The fifth patient, a 7-year-old from northern Hai Duong province is under treatment at the Central Paediatric Hospital .
The National Institute of Infectious and Tropical Diseases is now treating several other patients having bird flu symptoms while waiting for the H5N1 virus test results from the Central Institute of Epidemiology.
The Ministry of Public Health has co-organised with relevant agencies to conduct detoxification measures and give Tamilflu to people in high-risk provinces including Hai Duong and Ninh Binh.-
15 February 2008
The Ministry of Health in Viet Nam has confirmed a new case of human infection of H5N1 avian influenza. The case has been confirmed by the National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology (NIHE).
The case is a 40 -year old male from Gia Loc district, Hai Duong province. He developed symptoms on 2 February was hospitalized on 8 February and died on 13 February. The case had contact with sick and dead poultry prior to his illness. The Ministry of Health and local health units have implemented control measures and close contacts have been identified. All remain healthy and will continue to be monitored.
Of the 103 cases confirmed to date in Vietnam, 49 have been fatal.
Bird flu kills man in northern Vietnam News about: VIET NAM
Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 05:59:25 +0100 (MET)
by Frank Zeller
HANOI, Feb 14, 2008 (AFP) - Bird flu killed a Vietnamese man this week, the country's second victim of the H5N1 strain in 2008, raising the national death toll from the virus to 49, health officials said Thursday. The 40-year-old man died of pneumonia and kidney failure Wednesday at the National Contagious and Tropical Diseases Hospital in Hanoi after four days of treatment there, said the hospital's deputy director Nguyen Hong Ha. "The man from Hai Duong province died of H5N1 type-A influenza," said Nguyen Huy Nga, head of the Preventive Medicine Department at the Ministry of Health. "This is the 103rd case of bird flu and the 49th death from it in Vietnam."
The man had been treated at home and in a provincial hospital after handling chicken, said Nga, adding that people who were in close contact with him were now also being tested for bird flu and given the drug Tamiflu. "The man's family had seven sick chickens. They sold five and kept two," said an official from Vietnam's Institute of Tropical and Infectious Diseases. "The man handled the two chickens and ate them with his family." The World Health Organisation (WHO) has been notified of the death and invited to accompany government health officials to visit the man's house and investigate the case, said WHO spokeswoman Dida Connor. "The case shows that while the virus remains in the environment, people need to stay vigilant," said Connor. "The public protection measures remain as important as ever because the risk hasn't gone away." Northern Vietnam has been in the grip of a month-long cold snap that experts say has aided the spread of flu and other respiratory diseases because immune systems are weakened and people tend to spend more time indoors together.
Last week's traditional Tet lunar New Year, the country's biggest festival, was seen as a particularly high-risk period for the spread of the virus because the movement of poultry products, and of people, rises sharply. Bird flu outbreaks among poultry have hit in recent weeks in the northern province of Thai Nguyen and in central Quang Binh, authorities have said, but no outbreak among birds had been reported in Hai Duong. "Prevention measures have now been tightened, and the poultry flock in the area has been killed," said Hoang Van Nam, deputy director of the Animal Health Department of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development. "Poultry in nearby communes are being vaccinated and local veterinary officials are taking test samples."
To avoid infection, people should handle poultry with care, wash their hands before and after, cook meat and eggs well, avoid contact with sick birds and promptly report all suspicious cases, said Connor. "It's important people heed these measures because the threat is as serious as it was, it has not gone away," she said. In January 18 bird flu killed a 32-year-old man from Tuyen Quang province northwest of Hanoi. He had suffered severe pneumonia symptoms after reportedly preparing and eating poultry he found dead near his house. The WHO has so far confirmed 360 human cases of H5N1 bird flu worldwide, of whom 226 have died, not including the latest Vietnam fatality, according to WHO figures published online. The virus is mainly an animal disease, but scientists fear it could mutate to easily jump from human to human, sparking a deadly global pandemic. Source: AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Date: 14/2/2008
Third H5N1 Confirmed Case in Northern Vietnam This Week Recombinomics Commentary 16:16
February 14, 2008
The fifth patient, a 7-year-old from northern Hai Duong province is under treatment at the Central Paediatric Hospital .
The National Institute of Infectious and Tropical Diseases is now treating several other patients having bird flu symptoms while waiting for the H5N1 virus test results from the Central Institute of Epidemiology.
The above comments describe the confirmation of H5N1 in the third patient in northern Vietnam this week (see satellite map). There have been four previously confirmed cases since December, and all four have been fatal.
The current case extends the sudden jump in cases and the additional hospitalized patients suggest this jump may be extended further in the near term.
Earlier cases this week were linked to the recent purchase or slaughter of poultry in association with celebrations of the Tet New Year earlier this month. All of these cases have been in northern Vietnam, raising concerns of widespread distribution of H5N1 infected birds in the region.
These new infections are likely to be the Fujian strain (clade 2.3) and raise concerns of more efficient transmission of H5N1 to humans.
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Another in Northern Viet Nam Found to Contract Bird Flu
One more patient in Ninh Binh province in northern Viet Nam was found to contract influenza virus H5N1 type A, becoming the fourth person infected by the deadly virus since the beginning of this year in the Southeast Asian nation, reported the national Department of Preventative Health.
Plucking chickens for food poses the most risk.
Twenty-seven-year-old Hoang Van Doan was hospitalized at the Bach Mai Hospital in Ha Noi on February 12 with multiple organ failure, pleural effusion and septicemia.
The case of Doan was the fourth since this year. The first three cases all led to fatalities. Currently Doan has to undergo blood filter and use artificial respiration. Initial epidemiological investigations revealed the victim plucked and cooked some chickens for consumption before Lunar New Year.
Further tests are being taken to determine the cause, a representative from Bach Mai Hospital told Sai Gon Giai Phong.
Meanwhile, doctors are trying their best to save his life.
Just this week, a 40-year-old man in Hai Duong province, also in the north, died from the same H5N1 type-A. He was thus the 49th person to die of the virus in Viet Nam since bird flu began raging across Asia in late 2003. http://www.saigon-gpdaily.com.vn/Health/2008/2/61504/
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Thêm một người chết do nhiễm cúm A H5N1
15/02/2008 -- 10:03 PM
Hà Nội (TTXVN) - Tối 14/2, bệnh nhân Hoàng Văn Đoàn, 27 tuổi, quê Ninh Bình, đã tử vong do cúm A H5N1.
Trước đó ngày 5/2 (tức 29 Tết), anh Đoàn trực tiếp giết mổ và ăn thịt gà. Ngày 12/2, anh được cấp cứu vào bệnh viện Bạch Mai.
Đây là bệnh nhân thứ tư tử vong do cúm A H5N1 ở Việt Nam từ đầu năm đến nay. Các chuyên gia y tế đã bày tỏ lo ngại về tỷ lệ tử vong cao và diễn biến phức tạp của vi rút cúm A H5N1 ở người từ đầu năm 2008 đến nay.
Hiện còn bệnh nhi 7 tuổi, quê ở Gia Lộc, Hải Dương đang điều trị tại Bệnh viện Nhi Trung ương, sức khỏe tiến triển tốt. Viện các bệnh Truyền nhiễm và Nhiệt đới Quốc gia cũng đang theo dõi và điều trị một số trường hợp nghi nhiễm cúm A H5N1 trong khi chờ Viện Vệ sinh dịch tễ Trung ương làm xét nghiệm.
Bộ Y tế đã phối hợp với các Bộ, ngành có liên quan khẩn trương chỉ đạo khử độc môi trường, cho người dân vùng có nguy cơ cao, có bệnh nhân tử vong do cúm A H5N1, uống Taminflu tại Hải Dương, Ninh Bình./.
HANOI, Feb. 15 (Xinhua) -- A man from Vietnam's northern Ninh Binh province died from bird flu Friday morning, raising the total number of bird flu fatalities in the country since December 2003 to 50, according to a report of Central Vietnam Television.
The 27-year-old man named Hoang Van Doan was admitted to the Bach Mai Hospital in the capital Hanoi on Feb. 12. He slaughtered chickens for meal on Feb. 5.
The Vietnamese Health Ministry on Feb. 13 confirmed a death of a 40-year-old man from northern Hai Duong province, who died on Feb. 13 after four days of treatment in the capital city, was infected with bird flu virus strain H5N1. The man named Do Van Sanslaughtered dead fighting chickens for meal before exhibiting bird flu symptoms on Feb. 2, said the TV report.
Late last month the ministry confirmed that a 32-year-old ethnic man named Tran Van Dong from northern Tuyen Quang province died from bird flu on Jan. 18. He slaughtered and ate dead fowls raised by his family for meal.
In late December 2007, after detecting no human cases of bird flu infections for nearly four months, the ministry confirmed that a four-year-old boy from northern Son La province died from bird flu on Dec. 16, 2007.
To date, Vietnam has reported a total of 104 human cases of bird flu infections, including 50 fatalities, since the disease started to hit the country in December 2003.
Vietnam currently has four localities having poultry being hit by bird flu: northern Thai Nguyen, central Quang Binh province, northern Quang Ninh province and southern Long An province, the Department of Animal Health under the country's Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development said on Thursday. Bird flu killed 685 fowls in a flock in Quang Ninh's Mong Cai town from Feb. 12-13, and 150 ducks in Long An's Ben Luc district on Feb. 9, the department said, noting that their specimens were tested positive to H5N1. Bird flu outbreaks in Vietnam, starting in December 2003, have killed and led to the forced culling of dozens of millions of fowls in the country.
H5N1 Confirmed Cluster in Hai Duang Vietnam Causes Concern Recombinomics Commentary 16:16
February 15, 2008
Chuc said the man's wife cooked the dead chickens and shared them with a relative, then cremated the three sick birds.
No other members of the man's family have fallen ill, but health authorities were testing them and close neighbors for the virus, Chuc added.
The above comments describe contacts of the index case of a geographic cluster in Hai Duang in northern Vietnam (see satellite map). The index case (40F) was H5N1 confirmed and died on Wednesday. The update from the WHO described the case and noted that "close contacts" were being monitored. They were being treated with Tamiflu, but they had no symptoms. However it is not clear if “close contacts” extends to the relative described above.
Today a seven year old child from Hai Duang was H5N1 confirmed. The timing and location raise concerns about human to human transmission, or transmission via shared food if the seven year old is a family member of the index case or the relative who received some of the dead chickens.
Today’s media report on the seven year old added that more patients were hospitalized with bird flu symptoms, but lab confirmation had not been completed.
The sudden increase in H5N1 in the region is cause for concern. Two confirmed cases in the same small district in the same week is one cause, as are the additional confirmed and suspect hospitalized cases. Moreover, all confirmed patients, other than the recently confirmed seven year, have died.
In the past, clusters in northern Vietnam have caused concern. The most alarming series was three years ago, when clusters grew as the case fatality rate fell. In the current burst of activity, the number of cases is quickly rising but all outcomes have been fatal.
More information on the relationship of the confirmed seven year old to the index case would be useful, as would updates on the other hospitalized patients and sequence data on these news cases. http://www.recombinomics.com/News/02...g_Cluster.html
Bird flu has killed a second Vietnamese man this week, raising the country's death toll from the virus to 50.
Health officials say the man aged 27 came from northern Ninh Binh province and had been treated in a hospital in Hanoi since early last week.
They says he slaughtered two chickens on January the 31st and fell ill two days later and then tested positive for the H5-N1 strain of the virus.
Northern Vietnam has been in the grip of a month-long cold snap that experts say aids the spread of flu and other respiratory diseases because immune systems are weakened and people tend to spend more time indoors together. http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/new...s/s2164347.htm
By Ho Binh Minh
HANOI, Feb 16 (Reuters) - Bird flu has killed a second man in Vietnam this week, infected a child and poultry in two provinces and a health official warned more people would fall sick of the virus, the government and state media said on Saturday.
The 27-year-old man died on Thursday night at a Hanoi hospital after he was taken there from the northern province of Ninh Binh on Tuesday with serious pneumonia, the official Vietnam News Agency reported.
On Jan. 31 he slaughtered two sick chickens and fell ill two days later with pneumonia symptoms, the Health Ministry has said. His death is Vietnam's third this year from bird flu.
Doctors also confirmed a 7-year-old child from the northern province of Hai Duong had the H5N1 virus and was being treated at a paediatric hospital in Hanoi, the Vietnam News Agency said without disclosing the gender or details of the infection.
Hai Duong is home to a 40-year-old man who died from bird flu on Tuesday, the 49th fatality of Vietnam's 103 confirmed cases, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said, citing tests performed by Vietnamese health authorities.
Both provinces of Ninh Binh and Hai Duong are not on the government's bird flu watchlist, but health officials said more human infections could emerge as chicken is a popular dish at this time of the year.
"Now it is the start of spring, parties using chicken are numerous," Nguyen Huy Nga, head of the Health Ministry's Preventive Medicine Department, said in an interview with the VNExpress e-newspaper (www.vnexpress.net). "Many patients will be found in the coming days," he said, criticising poor communication as people failed to report dead poultry to the authorities. Several people suspected of having bird flu were now being treated in Hanoi, the Vietnam News Agency said without elaborating.
The Agriculture Ministry's Animal Health Department also reported cases in the past week at two poultry farms in the northern province of Quang Ninh on the border with China and in the southern province of Long An.
Bird flu killed 855 birds in Mong Cai town and another district in Quang Ninh province on Feb. 12-14, prompting the authorities to slaughter 800 more birds, the department said.
"In Mong Cai town the poultry smuggling originated from China still takes place and it's difficult to control," the department said in its daily report.
Bird flu also killed 150 one-month-old ducklings in Long An province on Feb. 9, it said, bringing to four the number of provinces on the government's bird flu watchlist.
H5N1 remains mainly a virus of birds, but experts fear it could mutate into a form easily transmitted from person to person and sweep the world, possibly killing millions.
Not including the death on Thursday, bird flu has killed 227 people among the 361 known cases. Most of the deaths have been in Indonesia and Vietnam, WHO figures show. (Editing by Jeremy Laurence) http://africa.reuters.com/commoditie...HAN323167.html
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