Bird flu kills 4,500 chickens in Vietnam

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HANOI - A strain of bird flu virus that is not lethal to humans has killed at least 4,500 chickens in Vietnam, three months after an outbreak of the deadly H5N1 type that killed 16 people was declared over, officials said.


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The chickens on three farms in the Mekong Delta province of Bac Lieu died or were destroyed after testing positive for the H5 strain of the bird flu disease. While the H5 type is not known to be harmful to humans, another strain, H5N1, is lethal.

“We are doing everything we can to contain the outbreak. Our hope is that it will not spread,” a spokesman for the animal health authority in Vinh Loi district where the three farms are situated said on Wednesday.

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1. It spreads in chickens.

Can Chickenhawks get it?

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2. Bird flu becoming more infectious to mammels

AP , WASHINGTON
Wednesday, Jun 30, 2004,Page 6

A type of bird flu that has killed millions of chickens is becoming more infectious to mammals and scientists fear it could cause the next worldwide pandemic in

humans.

The avian flu has forced authorities to slaughter millions of chickens and other fowl in Asia to stem outbreaks in recent years. Thousands more have been killed in the US and elsewhere.

Already the flu has passed from birds to humans in Hong Kong, killing six of 18 people infected in 1997, and human cases have been reported since then in Vietnam and Thailand.

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