Travel Forum / Destinations / Asia / October 2005

"tarzan" <tarzan@rock.com> wrote in news:1130575261.119419.54650
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Symptom similar to Hanta Virus in US.  50% chance to live or die.  Hospital
puts victim into artificial induced coma and heart / lung machine. Allows
body to rest so can fight the virus.  If victim lives, they slowly taken
victim out of induced coma.

Permanent induced coma (lethal injection) better than hanging?

Bird Flu can only be confirmed by WHO before you can put in public.

Vietnam has two new suspected bird flu deaths - doctor

By Nguyen Nhat Lam

HANOI (Reuters) - Two people showing symptoms of the bird flu virus
have died in the past week in Vietnam, where the disease has already
killed more than 40 people, a hospital official said on Saturday.

"It's very, very clear that all the critical symptoms pointed to bird
flu," Dr Nguyen Ngoc Tai, the director of the Vietnam-Cuba Hospital in
Dong Hoi, central Vietnam, told Reuters.

The Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper quoted a report from the hospital in
Quang Binh province as saying the victims, a 14-year-old girl and a
26-year-old man, had eaten duck and a chicken's egg around a week
before they got sick.

The girl was admitted to hospital on October 21 and died on October 23
and the man died on October 26 within an hour of arriving at the
hospital. Their bodies had been sent home to be buried, Tai said.

He said the victims were not related and from different towns in the
province, which is around 500 km (310 miles) south of the capital
Hanoi.

Tuoi Tre newspaper quoted doctors at the hospital as saying they both
had severe respiratory problems, fever and lung infection -- symptoms
similar to bird flu.

Tai said a third person with symptoms of the disease had been sent to a
better-equipped hospital in Hue City, central Vietnam, for treatment.

"There is another case of a 27-year-old man who is suspected to have
been infected with bird flu but in a milder form," Tai said.

He said his hospital was ill equipped to treat bird flu patients and
called for immediate supplies of the antiviral drug Tamiflu and flu
vaccines to cope with the situation if more bird flu patients emerged.

Most human bird flu infections are due to handling birds sick with the
virus or contact with their droppings. Cooked meat is not a known
source of infection.

The latest H5N1 outbreak first surfaced in Asia in late 2003. Since
then, 62 people have died in Vietnam, Thailand, Cambodia and Indonesia
and the virus has spread to Europe's eastern border.
10/29/05 01:24

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another holocaust of epic proportion

Vietnam has two new suspected bird flu deaths - doctor

By Nguyen Nhat Lam

HANOI (Reuters) - Two people showing symptoms of the bird flu virus
have died in the past week in Vietnam, where the disease has already
killed more than 40 people, a hospital official said on Saturday.

"It's very, very clear that all the critical symptoms pointed to bird
flu," Dr Nguyen Ngoc Tai, the director of the Vietnam-Cuba Hospital in
Dong Hoi, central Vietnam, told Reuters.

The Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper quoted a report from the hospital in
Quang Binh province as saying the victims, a 14-year-old girl and a
26-year-old man, had eaten duck and a chicken's egg around a week
before they got sick.

The girl was admitted to hospital on October 21 and died on October 23
and the man died on October 26 within an hour of arriving at the
hospital. Their bodies had been sent home to be buried, Tai said.

He said the victims were not related and from different towns in the
province, which is around 500 km (310 miles) south of the capital
Hanoi.

Tuoi Tre newspaper quoted doctors at the hospital as saying they both
had severe respiratory problems, fever and lung infection -- symptoms
similar to bird flu.

Tai said a third person with symptoms of the disease had been sent to a
better-equipped hospital in Hue City, central Vietnam, for treatment.

"There is another case of a 27-year-old man who is suspected to have
been infected with bird flu but in a milder form," Tai said.

He said his hospital was ill equipped to treat bird flu patients and
called for immediate supplies of the antiviral drug Tamiflu and flu
vaccines to cope with the situation if more bird flu patients emerged.

Most human bird flu infections are due to handling birds sick with the
virus or contact with their droppings. Cooked meat is not a known
source of infection.

The latest H5N1 outbreak first surfaced in Asia in late 2003. Since
then, 62 people have died in Vietnam, Thailand, Cambodia and Indonesia
and the virus has spread to Europe's eastern border.
10/29/05 01:24

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