Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Vietnam Add a patient dying of bird flu

Monday, February 27, 2012 6:39:36 PM

VIETNAM (NV) - Tuesday bird flu patient in Vietnam this year is in critical condition. According to the Hospital for Tropical Diseases Saigon Phu Truong Son patients 22 years old, Pacific residents can hardly escaped death.

According to 'Bee.net.vn', Truong Phu Son was taken to hospital emergency February 23 because of high fever, pneumonia, respiratory failure ... Test results of the Hospital for Tropical Diseases and the Pasteur Institute in Saigon showed that patients positive for H5N1 bird flu virus.



 Vietnam is facing a wave of new H5N1 flu. (Image: Hoang Dinh Nam / AFP / Getty Images)



Patients who had medical treatment thus far, but health is not good.

This is the third disease virus infection of bird flu in Vietnam since early this year. Two former patients are killed including a young duck in Soc Trang 18 years old and a 26-year-old woman living in Kien Giang province.

On the other hand the Pasteur Institute, avian flu has spread in 11 provinces in Vietnam and can spread from cattle to human with very high mortality rate  http://www.nguoi-viet.com/absolutenm2/templates/viewarticlesNVO.aspx?articleid=145154&zoneid=2

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