The four-year-old child from Vietnam's northern Son La province, who died in mid-December 2007 from bird flu, might have been infected with bird flu virus strain H5N1from wild birds, according to local newspaper Youth on Thursday.
All specimens from poultry in the province have been tested negative to H5N1, so the child might have contracted the virus from infected wild birds hunted and brought home by his family members, the newspaper quoted an official from Vietnam's Department of Animal Health, Van Dang Ky, as saying.
After detecting no human cases of bird flu infections for nearly four months, Vietnam's Health Ministry in late December 2007 confirmed that the boy from Moc Chau district died from bird flu.
The boy died on Dec. 16 after being admitted to the National Hospital of Pediatrics in Hanoi capital on Dec. 14. He was treated at a hospital in the district on Dec. 12 after showing signs of fever and pneumonia.
Vietnam has reported a total of 101 human cases of bird flu infections, including 47 fatalities, since the disease started to hit the country in December 2003.
Source: Xinhua
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