Vietnam has recorded its second victim this year of bird flu, a little girl of three years died today in Ho Chi Minh City, formerly Saigon in the south, said a health official.
The child, who lived in a neighboring province of the former Saigon (the Binh Duong), was transferred to a pediatric hospital in Ho Chi Minh City on March 10, when she suffered from severe lung infections, said Dr. Phan Van Nghiem, the local Department of Health. She had tested positive for the H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza, March 15, a result confirmed by further investigations, he added. Vietnam had recorded its first death this year due to bird flu last month, a woman of 38 years died also in the south, in the province of Tien Giang. This last death brings to 59 the number of victims of avian flu identified in Vietnam since late 2003, when H5N1 has reappeared in Southeast Asia. Since that time, Vietnam is the country with the heaviest death toll in the world of bird flu after Indonesia, according to the World Health Organization. The country currently lists homes animal bird flu in six provinces spread from north to south.
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