Poultry worker infected with bird flu
Pastor Dale Morgan
*Poultry worker infected with bird flu*
June 02, 2007 12:45pm
Article from: AAP
A VIETNAMESE man who worked at a poultry slaughterhouse outside Hanoi
has been infected with bird flu, the country's state media has reported.
It is the country's second human case in less than a month.
The man was taken to hospital with fever on May 26 and tests conducted
in Vietnam confirmed he had the H5N1 virus, doctor Nguyen Duc Hien who
heads the hospital treating the man told the Thanh Nien newspaper.
He told the newspaper the patient was in stable condition.
Hien could not be reached for comment.
Last month Vietnam reported its first human case of H5N1 virus infection
in a year and a half, a 30-year-old man in a province neighbouring Hanoi
who became sick after helping slaughter chickens at a friend's wedding.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) said it was working with the
Vietnamese government to verify that suspected case.
Hien said three more people had been admitted to his hospital in recent
weeks with serious pneumonia, and one of them had died.
Doctors had suspected the three had bird flu but tests showed they did
not, the doctor told Thanh Nien.
Bird flu has hit chickens and ducks in 13 provinces and in Can Tho city
since early May.
A total of 42 Vietnamese have died since the virus re-surfaced in Asia
in late 2003. It then re-emerged in 2005, last year and early this year.
The virus has infected 309 people in 12 countries, 187 of whom have
died, according to WHO figures.
These did not include the death on Tuesday of a 15-year-old Indonesian
girl.