Likely H5N1 Fatality in Northern Vietnam
Recombinomics Commentary 16:56
January 22, 2008
Bird flu may have killed a 32-year-old Vietnamese man in a northern province where the virus has been found in poultry, state-run media and a government report said on Tuesday.
The man died at a Hanoi hospital of pneumonia earlier this month, two days after he had been taken in from Tuyen Quang province
The man fell ill on January 16 after eating chicken which had died of unknown cause. Dead chicken and white-winged ducks were also found near his house, the newspaper quoted a relative as saying.
The above comments describe a likely H5N1 fatality in northern Vietnam. Recently the Fujian strain (clade 2.3) has moved into northern Vietnam, as indicated by a series of recent duck H5N1 sequences.
This has been associated with human cases in northern Vietnam. The five most recent cases have all been fatal.
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