# 4440
Commonground this morning, posting on FluTrackers, has the sad details on the death of a 3 year-old girl who lost her battle with the H5N1 virus while being treated at the Children's Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City.
This case is one I mentioned yesterday (see Vietnam: New Suspected H5N1 Case). Apparently a 2nd lab test has come back positive for H5N1, and so this appears that it will become a confirmed fatality.
This is a machine translation is of an article that appeared in today’s Saigon Times. There are, admittedly, some portions of this translation that are less than clear.
Deaths due to bird flu in the first year in the South
Thu Hien
(Saigon Times Online) - Children's Hospital has confirmed two girls aged three influenza A/H5N1 infected in the first City area died in two hours this morning, 17-3 at the hospital after patients with respiratory failure interesting serious.
Thus, this is the case of death Monday by bird flu since early this year. Information from the City Health Department for patients NTKM (3 years old, live Thuan An, Binh Duong) Children's Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City and two tests positive for influenza A/H5N1 day 10-3.
According to epidemiological investigation, patients M. hospitalized with symptoms of high fever, occasional cough. Baby grandson was five consecutive days of fever, suspected infected dengue but test is not dengue, taking pictures showed pneumonia, respiratory insufficiency.
Doctors conducted tests PCR (molecular biology) for the results baby positive for influenza A/H5N1.
The FluTrackers thread on this case has, as of this writing, 9 entries. More will probably be posted during the day, and they may clear up some of the ambiguities of the above translation.
Despite this article’s reference to `two girls’ and a `baby grandson’ , as far as I’m aware only one patient – a 3 year-old female – is involved here.
Genders and other details are often mangled a bit in the translation process.
This would appear to represent the fifth human infection, and second fatality of the year from the bird flu virus in Vietnam.
