HANOI, June 16 (Reuters) - Bird flu has killed one patient in Vietnam, the first death in the country since 2005, state-run television quoted a government report on Saturday as saying.

The death brought the total death toll from bird flu in Vietnam to 43.

The patient died last week in the northern province of Ha Tay, the television cited the Health Ministry report as saying. It gave no details of the gender of the deceased or how the patient became infected.