Nurse who attended bird flu patient now has bird flu, Vietnam
Main Category: Bird Flu / Avian FluAlso Included In: Flu / Cold / SARS
Article Date: 07 Mar 2005 - 9:00 PDT
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A male nurse who had been caring for a patient who had bird flu now also has bird flu, say authorities in Vietnam. Officials from the Thai Binh province, Northern Vietnam, cannot yet be sure of how the nurse caught the bird flu (from the patient or elsewhere).
The nurse has been taken to a Hanoi hospital.
The nurse had been looking after a man who had caught bird flu - the man's sister also had bird flu.
This is not the first case of bird flu in the Thai Binh province. Earlier on this year another man died of bird flu - his two brothers, who also caught the virus, recovered.
Health experts worry that the bird flu virus could mutate and pass from human to human. This could lead to a serious pandemic (on a world scale) that could kill millions of people.
Visit our bird flu / avian flu section for the latest news on this subject.
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