From Xinhua
HANOI — Vietnam’s Ministry of Health (MoH) recently sent an urgent circular to provinces and cities, asking them to beef up the prevention and fight against H7N9 bird flu.
Vietnamese woman preparing chicken for meal. Photo nld.com.vn
Appearing on MoH’s General Department of Preventive Medicine website on Monday, the circular said although Vietnam has not reported any H7N9 case so far, the country has witnessed two deaths caused by H5N1 virus since the beginning of 2014.
In a recent development, a 39-year-old woman who was hospitalized at Vietnam’s National Hospital of Tropical Diseases in a serious health condition of respiratory failure has reportedly showed positive results for avian influenza or H5N1 bird flu. The patient had not contacted with poultry, but there were dead chicken in her family, said the circular.
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