Two Vietnamese women have bird flu - report
Pastor Dale Morgan
*Two Vietnamese women have bird flu - report*
12 Jun 2007 12:42:26 GMT
Source: Reuters
HANOI, June 12 (Reuters) - Two Vietnamese women have tested positive for
the H5N1 bird flu virus, but one has recovered while the other is in
intensive care, a state-run newspaper reported on Tuesday.
The online newspaper Vietnamnet (www.vnn.vn) quoted the director of the
Vietnam Administration of Preventive Medicine Nguyen Huy Nga as
confirming the two women, aged 28 and 29, from the northern provinces of
Thanh Hoa and Ha Nam, had bird flu.
Nga said both had been admitted to a hospital in Hanoi.
The 29-year-old woman from Thanh Hoa, who was infected after eating dead
duck, had recovered, while other woman was using a respirator to
breathe, Nga said.
Both Thanh Hoa and Ha Nam are among a list of 15 provinces and a city
that have reported bird flu outbreaks in poultry since early May.
The two new human cases came only a day after doctors said a man who was
Vietnam's first human bird flu case in a year and a half has won the
battle against the virus, leaving hospital on Monday.
Doctors were still treating a second patient, a slaughterhouse worker
from outside Hanoi who became sick late last month. The patient was
recovering well, they said.
Bird flu has killed 42 people out of 95 cases of infection in Vietnam
since it emerged in late 2003.
Meanwhile, the Animal Health Department said three bird flu cases in
poultry were found on June 7 and June 8 in the northern province of Thai
Binh, which had reported outbreaks in other districts in the province.