Vietnam police on bird flu patrol
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HANOI -- Vietnam has deployed riot police at bird flu checkpoints around Ho Chi Minh City, officials said yesterday, as the lethal virus claimed another victim, raising the country's recent death toll to 10.
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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.
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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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A series of measures are being taken to prevent animal epidemics since a bird flu outbreak in the country in the spring. Local governments have reinforced the monitoring of bird flu.
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HANOI  - Two experts from the World Health Organisation (WHO) arrived in Vietnam Sunday to help tackle the latest outbreak of deadly bird flu in the country, an official 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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Health authorities across the country meet today to discuss stepping up measures against the bird flu, in the wake of possible signs of human-to-human transmission of the lethal virus.
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A man dies of bird flu in Vietnam, officials say, in the first human death from the virus there since 2005.
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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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Government vets work through the night at a UK poultry farm to contain an outbreak of bird flu.
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Vietnam has sent officials on an urgent mission to China to buy 50 million doses of vaccine for poultry after two people died of the H5N1 bird flu virus.
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The Department of Health is setting up a surveillance system against bird flu to aid health workers to manage possible cases of the disease among humans, it was learned Saturday.
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The World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday voiced concern about the spread of bird flu in Vietnam, but said it was not considering warning against travel there as the risk of human infection was low.
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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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HANOI - A 16-year-old girl in Vietnam&#39;s southern province of Tay Ninh has been found to be infected with the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus, a hospital said Thursday.
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Vietnam's biggest city, home to 10  million people, began slaughtering its ducks on Wednesday in an  increasingly desperate fight to halt the spread of the deadly  bird flu virus that has killed 13 people in the last month.
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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.