# 1227
Xinhua is generally a pretty reliable purveyor of news from South East Asia. Today they bring us a story of a South Korean man, visiting his wife's home country of Vietnam, who has died of pneumonia in a hospital there and is suspected of having bird flu.
The kicker here is, according to relatives, the man's father back in Korea is ill with pneumonia, and supposedly bird flu symptoms, too.
Pneumonia is relatively common. Bird flu is not (not yet, anyway). We will need to wait on test results before we can know if this is standard community acquired pneumonia, or something worse.
South Korean man dies in Vietnam, suspected of contracting bird flu
www.chinaview.cn
2007-11-07 13:22:38
HANOI, Nov. 7 (Xinhua) -- A 33-year-old man from South Korea died of pneumonia with bird flu-like symptoms in Vietnam's southern Can Tho city, local media reported Wednesday.
The man named Lu Chin-chu, whose wife is from the city's Co Dodistrict, died on Tuesday afternoon, 11 hours after being admitted to the Can Tho General Hospital, said Youth newspaper. Specimens from the patient are being tested for bird flu virus strain H5N1.
His father in South Korea is suffering from pneumonia with bird flu-like symptoms, according to his relatives in the city.
Bird flu first occurred in Vietnam in December 2003. Since then, 100 people in the country have been recorded with H5N1, 46 of whom died, reported Vietnam News newspaper. The majority of human cases have been exposed to infected poultry.
