Avian Influenza

After bird flu kills six in Vietnam, WHO warns outbreak is possible

Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, February 8th, 2005

Health experts are bracing for a repeat of last year's bird flu outbreak after six people died in Vietnam within 3 weeks and neighboring Thailand reported its first cases among poultry this year.

Outbreaks among poultry have been reported nationwide in Vietnam, and health experts say the pattern looks worrying similar to last year, when the virus spread rapidly just before the Lunar New Year holiday, or Tet. It quickly appeared in nine other Asian countries, killing or forcing the slaughter of more than 100 million birds and jumping from poultry to people in Vietnam and Thailand, where 26 and 12 people died, respectively.

"It has a higher fatality...

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