posted on Jul, 28 2005 @ 09:29 PM
Two more Vietnamese die of Bird Flu
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news.xinhuanet.com...
2 more Vietnamese die of bird flu
HANOI, July 29 (Xinhuanet) -- Specimens from two young people in Vietnam, who died this week, have been tested positive to bird fluvirus, local
newspaper Youth reported on Friday.
According tests by the Pasteur Institute in southern Ho Chi Minh City, the specimens from a 26-year-old patient from the city's Binh Tan
district, who died on Wednesday, were positive to the virus strain H5, while those from a 24-year-old man from Cang Long district in southern Tra Vinh
province, to the virus strain H5N1. The man named Le Hoang Anh died on Monday in a provincial hospital.
Relatives of the two patients said they ate chicken before exhibiting bird flu symptoms. Anh and his relatives ate dead chickens. The 26-year-old
patient bought half of a semi-processed chicken at a local market, and cooked it.
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It should be noted that these two were in differnent parts of the country.