Negative results for three suspected typeA/H5N1 patients

Blood samples of 24-year-old patient suspected of bird-flu in northern Bac Giang Province and two others in Hanoi prove negative.

On November 3, Bac Giang provincial hospital received a 24-year-old pregnant woman with symptoms of avian influenza after several ducks in her family’s flock died. The woman came from Viet Yen District, where bird flu is known to be present. Doctors suspected she was infected with H5N1 virus and were treating her in isolation, sending blood samples to Hanoi for testing.

However, tested blood samples prove negative and the patient has recovered and she will be discharged today, November 7.

The Central Hygiene and Epidemiology Institute also announced that blood samples of two Hanoian patients also showed negative results. Last week Dr Nguyen Duc Hien of the Tropical Diseases Institute reported two new suspected cases of bird flu virus in Hanoi. One patient died while the second, a 25-year-old Hanoi girl, who was treated after eating chicken five days before hospitalisation on November 1, is now getting better.


source: VietNamNet