H5N1 Fatality in Phu Tho Vietnam
Recombinomics Commentary 18:16
February 25, 2008
Day 25/2, Health Ministry asserted add a death case because of virus flu A / H5N1. There is circumstances patient V.T.H, 23 year-old, in Cam Khe, Phú Tho.
TS Nguyen Huy Nga, director medicine bureau prevention and environment (Health Ministry) day 25/2 say, patient V.T.H, 23 year-old, in Cam Khe, Phú Tho. disease stand up day 14/2, in hospital in place day 19/2 and move up courtyard diseases infection and country tropic day 21/2. Here, patient get take model, male test with H5N1 and die in morning 25/2.
The above translation describes another fatal H5N1 case in northern Vietnam (see satellite map). This is the fourth fatality this year and follows the confirmed fatality in Guangdong Province in southern China. It is unclear if the patient above was among the hospitalized suspect patients mentioned earlier, but the jump in fatal cases in northern Vietnam and southern China raise concerns that the H5N1 in circulation is infecting patients more efficiently.
It is likely that the recent infections in patients, poultry, and wild birds in the area are clade 2.2.3, but sequence data on isolates from these recent outbreaks would be useful.
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