HANOI -- Vietnam's National Hygiene and Epidemiology Institute said the country's latest human case of bird flu infection was a 11-year-old boy from northern Ha Nam province who died on March 14 after four days of treatment in Hanoi capital, Vietnam News Agency reported Monday.
The institute's tests showed that specimens from the boy named Do Van Huong from Thanh Liem district was infected with bird flu virus strain H5N1, the news agency quoted Nguyen Lap Quyet, director of the Ha Nam Health Department, as saying.
The boy fell ill on March 5, and was admitted to the Ha Nam General Hospital in the province on March 8, and the National Hospital of Pediatrics in Hanoi on March 11.
In late February, 10 out of a chicken flock raised by the boy' s family fell ill and died gradually. Then, the his family slaughtered some healthy chickens of the flock for meal.
