Vietnam family tests negative for bird flu

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Vietnam family tests negative for bird flu

AFP
Sunday, December 31, 2006 11:27 IST


HANOI: A Vietnamese family has tested negative for bird flu, a health official said on Sunday, after their hospital admission with respiratory ailments had sparked fears of a resurgence in human infections.

The mother and her three children fell ill a week earlier after eating a chicken that had died on their farm in Ca Mau, one of three southern provinces where the H5N1 strain of the virus has killed poultry this month.

But tests at Ho Chi Minh City's Pasteur Institute found that the family was not infected with the avian influenza virus, which between 2003 and 2005 killed 42 people in Vietnam, said the institute's Dr Phan Van Tu.

"All four people, the mother and her three children from Ca Mau province, on Saturday tested negative for the H5N1 virus," Tu said.

"They were suffering normal pneumonia."

 

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Vietnamese family tests negative for bird flu
The Associated PressPublished: January 1, 2007

HANOI, Vietnam: Tests have found that four members of a family in southern Vietnam who were hospitalized with symptoms of bird flu were not infected with the virus, a doctor said Tuesday.

A 36-year-old woman and her three children aged three to 13 were admitted to Nam Can Hospital in Ca Mau province last week with fevers, coughing, decreased white blood cells and damaged lungs. The family had eaten a chicken that had fallen sick and died on Dec. 23.

"They tested negative for the H5N1 strain of bird flu," said Phan Van Tu, chief virologist at the Pasteur Institute in Ho Chi Minh City. "They were suffering from pneumonia."

Vietnam has not had any known human cases of bird flu for more than a year and is widely seen as a model for how to fight bird flu using extensive vaccinations of poultry, careful surveillance and slaughters of birds in infected areas.

However, in December, it reported its first bird flu outbreaks in poultry in a year in Ca Mau and two other provinces in the Mekong Delta.

Today in Asia - Pacific

 

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Re: Vietnam family tests negative for bird flu

AVIAN INFLUENZA, HUMAN - VIET NAM: SUSPECTED
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Date: Tue 2 Jan 2007
From: Thomas Schmidt <mediscon@web.de>
Source: eCanadaNow, Associated Press report, Tue 2 Jan 2007 [edited]
<http://www.ecanadanow.com/science/health/2007/01/02/vietnam-reports-new-cases-of-bird-flu/>


Vietnam has reported its first cases of bird flu this year [2007].
According to local health officials, 4 members of the same family were
admitted to a hospital in southern Viet Nam suffering with symptoms
consistent with avian flu. It was reported that the family had 4 chickens
and 5 ducks on their farm. The family soon became ill after eating one of
the chickens, reported the Associated Press.

The affected family members were a 36-year-old mother and her 3 children
between 3 and 13 years old. It is estimated that 42 people have died of the
H5N1 bird flu virus in Viet Nam since 2003 [but none during 2006 - Mod.CP].
However after extensive work, the country has dramatically reduced the
number of new cases.

--
Th.Schmidt
Executive Director mediScon worldwide
International Institute for Travel and Health
Kaulbachstr. 25
30625 Hannover - Germany
<mediscon@web.de>

[The WHO list of confirmed human cases of avian influenza A (H5N1) in Viet
Nam remains unchanged at 93 with 42 deaths
(<http://www.who.int/csr/disease/avian_influenza/country/cases_table_20
06_12_27/en/index.html>). No human cases of avian influenza A (H5N1) virus
infarction have been confirmed in the past year, despite the reappearance
of bird flu in poultry in 3 southern provinces of Viet Nam (see ProMED-mail
references below). Four suspected human cases have not been confirmed and a
verdict on another 2 is pending.

It is possible that the mother and family of 3 described in this report are
the same as those recorded as unconfirmed in "Avian influenza, human (194)
- Viet Nam: NOT 20061231.3663". - Mod.CP]

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