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International research into bird flu in Southeast Asia
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Vietnamese research institutes together with the Pasteur Institute in Cambodia, China, and France, and Laos?s Virus Research Laboratory would conduct a study on the bird flu epidemic in Southeast Asia.
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Vietnamese research institutes together with the Pasteur Institute in Cambodia, China, and France, and Laos?s Virus Research Laboratory would conduct a study on the bird flu epidemic in Southeast Asia.
The Vietnamese Institute of Epidemic Prevention said the 6 million euro (US$7.6 million) project, to be sponsored by France and to last four years, would start by year-end and establish a network to monitor, detect, and control the epidemic in the region.
Since it began ravaging Asian poultry stocks in late 2003, the H5N1 virus has killed at least 144 people.
No human H5N1 bird flu cases had been reported in Vietnam in the last 10 months but the threat of an epidemic continued to loom, the Health Ministry has warned repeatedly.
With the epidemic still raging in several Asian countries, the ministry is worried it might recur in Vietnam in winter or next spring.
Source: Thanh nien ? Translated by Luu Thi Hong