No contact with infected poultry remains influenza A (H5N1)

Updated at: 8:28 AM, March 16, 2010

No direct contact with infected poultry, not directly eat meat or poultry sick but she died T., 25, in Phu Ninh, Soc Son, Hanoi still infected influenza A (H5N1).

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According to Nguyen Dang Tuan, emergency resuscitation science, Bach Mai Hospital, the direct treatment for Ms. T., ca influenza A (H5N1 first in Hanoi, when the patient was moved to second on years of healthy patients should have a serious decline, most viscera failure. We still have her appear more ventilation and air filled lung membranes. The doctors can not the data on the lives of patients.

Dr. Tran Nhu Duong, Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology Institute vice Central, said, according to initial epidemiological survey from early March until now, the area around a patient's T. a sick bird, dead scattered. Dr. Yang also for not exclude cases where influenza A virus (H5N1) dispersed in the environment around the house, can be transmitted to the source patient.

Therefore, experts recommend epidemiology, people should notify local authorities if discovered sick birds, dead with no known cause for environmental remediation measures in time. Also, when exposed to infected poultry, poultry sickness, death must be equipped with adequate labor protection, wash your hands with soap and antiseptic solution after contact with poultry. Especially when there are manifestations of fever, cough, shortness of breath, need to just medical facility for examination and treatment in time, especially those with less resistance as the elderly, young children and people with decline of resistance such as pregnant women, new birth or who have chronic ..