Vietnam: H5N1 Human Confirmed Case+4 others in Hospital w/symptoms (2 articles)

Young men critical because bird flu
Thứ hai, 5/4/2010, 18:20 GMT+

The dead poultry slaughter contagious bird flu. Photo: Hoang Ha.

Patients 22 years old, hamlet Nà Tào, commune Như Cố, Bac Kan province newly identified positive for H5N1. He is in critical condition, have ventilation.

Mr. Nong Quoc Chi, Director of Health Department of Bac Kan province, said on 2 / 4, patients in the provincial hospital with signs of fever and cough. A day later, he was transferred to hospital treatment in the central tropical diseases, to breathing machines.

To date 4 / 4, Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology result of male patients tested positive for H5N1. According to epidemiological investigation, in which patients live poultry have died phenomenon.

Chi also said, in the commune seemed to have four more people with symptoms of high fever and cough, are isolated, tracking. But the health of all four men are stable.

Recently, in Soc Son, Hanoi, a pregnant women infected with H5N1 has killed nearly three times over 20 days in hospital.

Many experts are worried that H5N1 viruses are getting stronger motivation, especially the ability to combine with influenza H1N1 virus, spread rapidly.

In 2010, Vietnam has also recorded cases of death due to this virus is the first female patients, aged 38, in An Thai Trung commune, Cai Be district, Tien Giang Province. In the last year, including five cases of H5N1 have died.
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A bird flu case detected in Bac Kan province
: 6:52 PM, 04/05/2010
The Director of the Bac Kan provincial Health Department, Nong Quoc Chi, confirmed an A/H5N1-infected case on April 5.
The patient, Trung Van Hoa, 22, from Na Tao hamlet, Nhu Co commune, Cho Moi district, is currently in critical condition. He is being treated at the Central Hospital for Tropical Diseases.
The patient got sick on March 30 with symptoms of high fever and cough. He was admitted to Bac Kan provincial hospital, and then sent to the Central Hospital for Tropical Diseases on April 3 where he tested positive for the lethal strain of A/H5N1 virus.
At present, four other people in Nhu Co commune show similar symptoms of high fever and cough. They are under quarantine and being treated at Bac Kan provincial hospital.
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