Bird flu kills 10-year-old girl in southern Vietnam, 12th in the past month
submited by kickingbird at Jan, 31, 2005 11:32 AM from The Malaysia Star,Malaysia
The girl from Long An province died Sunday night after surviving about a week in critical condition on a respirator, said a doctor from Pediatrics Hospital Number One in Ho Chi Minh City.
Dead chicken were reported at the girl´s house and in her village nearly a month ago, and she developed a high fever and coughing a week after helping her family bury the dead poultry, said Ngo Van Hoang, director of Long An provincial Preventive Medicine Center.
Two men from northern Vietnam, ages 66 and 30, who tested positive for the H5N1 strain of bird flu remained in stable condition Monday but were recovering, state-controlled media reported.
Meanwhile, a Cambodian woman died Saturday at a hospital in southern Vietnam, a doctor at the General Hospital in Kien Giang province, which borders Cambodia, said on condition of anonymity.
She was admitted with bird flu symptoms, but tests were still being conducted to determine whether she was infected with the virus, he said.
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- USCDC: A(H5N1) Bird Flu Response Update 4 days ago
- USDA, HHS Announce New Actions to Reduce Impact and Spread of H5N1 4 days ago
- U.S.: HPAI detection in Idaho poultry flock 6 days ago
- USDA: Detections of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza in Wild Birds 6 days ago
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