Int'n'l Experts Join Efforts to Fight Vietnam's Bird Flu Crisis

World | January 20, 2004, Tuesday // 00:00
Int'n'l Experts Join Efforts to Fight Vietnam's Bird Flu Crisis A 5th person died from bird flu in Vietnam, WHO reported, as UN experts scoured the country for other suspected cases of the virus that has caused an Asia-wide health scare. Photo by AFP

International disease experts are grappling to contain a bird flu outbreak in Vietnam that has killed at least five people and triggered alarm bells across Asia in the run-up to the Lunar New Year. Six people from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, including three epidemiologists, flew into Hanoi late Monday to help the World Health Organization and the Vietnamese authorities.

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