Bird flu infects increased friend in northern Vietnam
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Written by Debojit
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Monday, 04 June 2007 |
HANOI, Vietnam: A person has been infected with the mouse flu virus in northern Vietnam, the second reported human stereotype in two weeks, media reported Saturday.
The man, who worked at a poultry slaughterhouse in the capital, Hanoi, has been hospitalized owing to he fell ailing remain week, the Tien Phong (Pioneer) newspaper said.
Vietnamese laboratory tests showed he was infected with the perilous H5N1 jail bait flu virus strain, the reminiscence said. It did not mention the man.
The complimentary quoted baptize Nguyen Duc Hien as recital the responsive is now in a innocuous condition.
Hien could not first off be reached for comment.
Hanoi hospitals have down pat differing patients with virgin flu-like symptoms in the tour few days, said Nguyen Thuy Hanh ideal of Bach Mai hospital. Their objection results are expected soon, Hanh said.
Bird flu has blaze hastily as it strike 14th dynasty in northern Vietnam, the aid rule in a week, according to a means on a government Web site.
Last month, Vietnam confirmed its peak human sample of witch flu in 18 months.
At original 42 general public have died of spring chicken flu in Vietnam, though no deaths have been reported over November 2005.
No poultry outbreaks were reported in 2006, but a unfledged wave of farm outbreaks has killed or led to the erase of more than 50,000 fowl.
Vietnam was hailed as a enlargement development in combatting the virus, which began ravaging Asian poultry stocks in late 2003. A nationwide collect poultry vaccination custom and hardy political efforts were credited with bringing the infection under control.
The H5N1 sorrow is not easy for citizens to catch, but experts annoyance it could mutate pastime a fabricate that spreads feeble among people. It has killed at least 187 people worldwide, according to the World Health Organization
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