Vietnam's National Hospital of Pediatrics received two more flu type A
suspects, one of them is in serious condition, the hospital's deputy director
Nguyen Van Loc said yesterday.
A customer checks a chicken to make sure it is
not sick at a poultry market in Hanoi.
[Reuters]
Local media reported that actually
three toddlers aged around one year old, who live in the capital of Hanoi and
the two northern provinces of Ha Tay and Vinh Phuc, were recently admitted to
the hospital.
The national hospital is now treating four children, one of whom is expected
to be discharged next Monday, two need assistance of respirators, and one is in
stable conditions with simple symptoms of a temperature and cough, Loc said.
Besides old methods such as lowering temperature and using antibiotics, the
hospital is giving patients a new anti-virus medicine, Loc said, adding that the
hospital has so far received 14 children, 10 of them have died of bird flu type
A.
According to the Vietnamese Ministry of Health, by Friday, Vietnam had a
total of 21 flu type A infections and suspects under treatment in the Hospital
of Pediatrics and the Institute for the Control of Tropical Diseases in Hanoi.
The Vietnam News Agency reported on Friday that two young people have been
recently hospitalized in the southern province of Kien Giang with symptoms
similar to those of flu type A.
To date, Vietnam has detected a total of 23 flu type A patients and suspects,
of whom 13 have died of the disease. And the World Health Organization has just
confirmed that four local victims tested positive to the virus H5N1 which has
been found in infected poultry.
Bird flu, which has killed more than one million poultry in the last several
weeks, is spreading to many northern and southern localities in
Vietnam.