Vietnam confirms fourth victim of bird flu in two weeks
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An 18-year-old woman has died of bird flu in Vietnam, becoming the country's fourth fatality from the disease in the past fortnight.
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Vietnam may face fresh outbreaks of the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus next month as poultry is transported around the country ahead of the Lunar New Year celebrations in February, the World Health Organization 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 16-year-old girl from southern Vietnam has become infected with the bird flu strain that killed 32 people earlier this year and devastated the poultry industry across Asia, a doctor said Thursday.
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Vietnam said two children who died of  bird flu this month had tested positive for the H5N1 strain,  bringing to three the number of fatalities from the latest  outbreak of a virus that killed 24 people across Asia earlier  this year.
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Vietnam said on Tuesday initial tests showed a 14-month-old boy died from bird flu, but it was unclear if the child was infected with the same H5N1 strain of the virus that killed 19 people in the country earlier this year.
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FOUR Thai children were in hospital today with symptoms of avian flu, a health official said, days after the disease claimed its latest human victim since resurfacing in Asia two months ago.
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Vietnam, fearing new cases of the bird  flu virus that killed more than 30 people across Asia last year  and ravaged the region's poultry industry, is urging consumers  to exercise caution in buying chicken.
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Some 500 chickens in Vietnam&#39;s northern Nam Dinh province have just died of bird flu, which urgesthe country to beef up preventive measures, according to local newspaper Vietnam Agriculture Friday.
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Vietnam has detected seven confirmed and  possible bird flu infections in humans so far, but is concerned  about more cases cropping up among its scattered small farms, a  health ministry official said on Monday.
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A 32-YEAR-OLD Thai woman was today confirmed to be suffering from bird flu, the second confirmed human case of the disease since the country&#39;s latest outbreak started in July.
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The World Health Organization (WHO) has  raised the specter of human-to-human transmission of deadly  avian influenza following confirmation that two Vietnamese  brothers had contracted the virus and one had died.
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Vietnam Wednesday confirmed that three of its citizens had died of bird flu early this month, Xinhua reports.
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One man died of suspected bird flu in  Vietnam over the weekend and three people were hospitalized as  news reports showed the virus has spread across the entire  country.
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Vietnam has just faced two new outbreaks of bird flu which either killed or led to the forced culling of more than 850 fowls in the southern province of Ca Mau, the local newspaper Labor reported Wednesday.
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Thailand has confirmed that a woman who died earlier this month was a victim of bird flu and said she may have contracted the disease from her daughter, raising the possibility of human-to-human transmission.
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Vietnam culled 450 ducks in its largest  city on Thursday, its latest attempt to stop the spread of the  bird flu virus that has killed 34 people across Asia and  ravaged the region's poultry industry.