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Vietnam is reporting the second confirmed human case of H5N1 infection in the past couple of weeks, after more than a year without any cases. Additionally, two other patients are being tested who have presented with bird flu symptoms (one has died), and we await those results.
Vietnam reports another human bird flu case
Vietnam confirmed a new human bird flu case Friday as the latest outbreak swept through 14 provinces within the last month.
A worker at a slaughterhouse in Hanoi had tested positive for the H5N1 virus strain, Nguyen Duc Hien, head of the National Institute for Tropical Diseases, said.
He was admitted to the institute May 26, just 12 days after starting to work at the abattoir. Hien said the man was recovering and his condition stable.
Director of Hanoi’s Bach Mai Hospital, Tran Thuy Hanh, said in the past two days two patients had been admitted with typical bird flu symptoms, one of whom had died Friday.
The hospital had taken samples from them for tests, she added.
New outbreaks
Meanwhile, tests have confirmed that all 300 ducklings culled on a farm last Monday in the northern province of Hung Yen had the H5N1 strain of bird flu.
An agriculture ministry report said that on May 30 around 200 ducks on a farm in another northern province, Ninh Binh, had also tested positive and been culled. Ninh Binh reported its first bird flu outbreak among ducks Monday.
Neither flock had been vaccinated against H5N1, the ministry said.
Earlier, on Friday, the ministry said the virus had struck a second province, Quang Nam, in the central region this week, killing 370 ducks.
Source: Thanh Nien
