Fifth bird flu case in Vietnam
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A woman becomes the fifth person in two weeks to be infected with avian flu in Vietnam, raising fears of a new epidemic.
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BANGKOK : Thailand was scrambling to determine whether bird flu struck five people in a northern province as the World Health Organisation expressed concern that human-to-human transmission of the lethal virus had occurred.
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Bird flu may have killed a 32-year-old Vietnamese man in a northern province where the virus has been found in poultry, state-run media and a government report said on Tuesday.
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A woman becomes the fifth person in two weeks infected with avian flu in Vietnam, as fears of a new outbreak rise.
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The WHO reports three new deaths from bird flu in Vietnam, one of which was from the H5N1 virus strain.
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A 14-month-old Vietnamese boy who died of bird flu on Sunday was probably infected by the H5N1 strain that has killed 27 people in Asia this year, an official at the World Health Organization said on Wednesday.
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Vietnam confirmed a new bird flu death to bring Asia&#39;s human toll to 30 yesterday, while Thailand rued its flawed efforts to control the epidemic after reporting its first likely case of the virus jumping from one person to another.
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Bird flu has killed a 10-year-old girl in  southern Vietnam, doctors said Monday, and they hoped the death  of a Cambodian women suspected of having the virus would force  Phnom Penh to take preventative measures.
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A 19-year-old woman hospitalised in Vietnam has tested positive for the lethal strain of bird flu that has killed 27 people across Asia this year, including 19 in the communist nation, officials said.
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Vietnam&#39;s top veterinary official warned yesterday of the dangers of bird flu spreading on a large scale over the holiday season running up through Tet, or Lunar New Year.
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A farmer in China's southeastern province of Fujian has been infected with the H5N1 form of bird flu, state media said on Thursday, the first human case in the country in about seven weeks.
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Dec 30, 2004 (CIDRAP News) - A 16-year-old girl in southern Vietnam is seriously ill with H5N1 avian influenza, according to reports from the World Health Organization (WHO) and news services today.
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A 28-year-old Vietnamese woman died on Thursday of bird flu, Vietnam's second victim of the H5N1 virus this month, a hospital official said.
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Two outbreaks of bird flu among poultry in Benin are the deadly H5N1 strain, the agriculture minister of the small West African state said.
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Some 4,000 chickens are culled in Vietnam in the latest of several bird flu outbreaks which are damaging the country's economy.
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An 18-year-old girl has died of bird flu  in southern Vietnam and the first confirmed human infection in  the country's north has raised concerns about possible  human-to-human transmission of the virus.
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MALAYSIA yesterday announced new bird flu cases and said a veterinary worker had been hospitalised with a fever and cough. Officials said eight birds had died from the H5 strain of avian flu in three villages