| Health Officials Warn of Deadly Threat
From H1N1 Flu Recombining With H5N1 Bird Flu
The reappearance of bird flu has opened up the threat of the
virus combining with the swine flu virus to become more lethal
and capable of human transmission, a Vietnam health official warned
at a meeting of the National Steering Board of Human Flu Prevention
on December 2.
Health officials recommend washing hands with soap as an effective
measure to protect against the A/H1N1 virus
Dr. Nguyen Huy Nga, chief of the Preventive Health and Environment
Department, said the H1N1 virus that causes swine flu could combine
with the H5N1 virus and become more deadly than the former and
more capable of human-to-human transmission than the latter, especially
in winter
He told delegates that two more people have died of swine flu,
both from the Mekong delta province of An Giang -- a 33-year-old
man from who died on November 20, and a 17-year-old girl who died
on November 29.
On November 28 bird flu claimed its fifth victim, a 23-year-old
man in the northern province of Dien Bien. Many others have been
hospitalized around the country with suspected bird flu.
Officials from the Vietnam Drug Administration said at the meeting
that three drug suppliers, GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), Sanoffi Aventis,
and Pasteur have registered to sell swine-flu vaccines.
So far the country has reported 10,944 swine-flu cases with 46
deaths and five deaths from bird flu.
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Reference Sources: saigon-gpdaily.com
December 4, 2009
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