A 22-year-old pregnant woman from Vietnam's northern Ha Tay province has died of bird flu, local newspaper Labor reported Wednesday.
According to a report of the Vietnamese Health Ministry, the woman named Dang Thi Ha, a farmer from the province's Thanh Oai district, died on July 28, two days after being admitted to the Bach Mai Hospital in capital Hanoi.
Her specimens were tested positive to bird flu virus strain H5N1, the paper quoted director of the provincial Health Department Nguyen Khac Hien as saying.
Doctors also failed to save her unborn baby, he said.
Ha, who collected fowls' droppings to breed fish for over one year, bought a chicken to process for meal. All of her family members ate the chicken, but only she was infected with the disease.
Local health agencies have disinfected areas around Ha's house, and monitored the health of people who had close contacts with her recently.
Vietnam has reported six human bird flu cases since mid-May, of whom three died and three others fully recovered. The country has reported a total of 99 human cases of bird flu infections, including 45 fatalities since December 2003, said the paper.
Source: Xinhua
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