Avian flu in 2 patients, 11 were blood tests
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
HANOI (TH) - Two people in northern Vietnam have bird flu caused by H5N1 virus, and health authorities say 11 people are another blood test for infection if they have malignant disease or not.

These patients are said to hospital with high fever, usually a sign of very sick people and all cases of avian influenza.





A woman sitting in front of caged chickens, she sold the roadside in the suburbs of Hanoi.
Information for H5N1 avian influenza has infected two people in Vietnam.
(Image: Hoang Dinh Nam / AFP / Getty Images)



According to health authorities, two people were confirmed bird flu as a man and a 22-year-old girl just 27 months. All of these persons live in Bac Kan province.

"All patients have been isolated and the experiment was conducted to find the cause of the disease." Liu Xuan Hoa, director of the Medical Center of Cho Moi in Bac Kan said, "This child girl infected with bird flu in a village with a man ill be testing confirmed the H5N1 virus. "

According to local sources, four of whom were hospital patients.

Bird flu casualty rate to 60% if not treated early and properly. Viral disease also spreads easily from birds to humans through contact or air.

The press in Vietnam for bird deaths in villages that have seen and some patients may have eaten infected poultry or contact with infected poultry. This question leads to the two people being tested and identified H5N1 infection have the same infectious source.

"We do not have evidence to conclude this is a case of infection from person to person." Mr. Hoa said.

Since early this year had two cases where patients died of bird flu in Vietnam, a woman who is 38 years old, the other is a 3-year-old girl. H5N1 virus spreads easily to other poultry or birds or ducks and geese. Very few people infected.

From 2003 to now, the world had 493 people infected with 292 deaths or 60%. Vietnam has officially announced 59 people dead. Most victims have direct contact with sick poultry.

Millions of poultry types of service in Vietnam have died or been culled since the H5N1 virus.