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To: Henry Niman who wrote (44621)	1/13/2004 1:23:44 PM
From: maceng2	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

More WHO teams to Vietnam soon on research of bird flu www.chinaview.cn 2004-01-13 01:33:08 (deathrate seems to be still moving up ..pb) news.xinhuanet.com GENEVA, Jan. 13 (Xinhuanet) -- The World Health Organization (WHO)announced Tuesday that more teams of experts would go to Vietnam soon to investigate the bird flu which may have caused 12 deaths there. "There are 14 cases under investigation and three are confirmed cases. One team has gone to Vietnam, and other teams will go there soon," said Dick Thompson, a spokesman of WHO's communicable diseases division. "With suspect cases reported since late October, there have been 12 deaths out of those 14 cases." "Samples from three of those people have been sent to Hong Kong Influenza Center and were confirmed the presence of H5N1 virus, which is known as bird flu. These cases are all in northern part of the country," he said. "There has been a large outbreak among poultry in the southern part of the country. There have been tests on those animals, and those animals were also tested positive of H5N1 virus." "So there's a link between the three deaths, and maybe a further link to the 14 cases and outbreak in the southern part of the country." Thompson said the only way to be absolutely confirmed is to isolate the virus from human beings to animals, and compare them. "So far, the human viruses have been isolated," he said. Enditem