Vietnam Confirms New Bird Flu Case
Asia's deadly bird flu has infected a 21-year-old Vietnamese man and possibly his younger sister, officials said on Friday, February 25, 2005. The man’s home area was being disinfected. It is not clear how he was infected, but during the Lunar New Year holiday, people everywhere ate chickens, as poultry is traditionally served. The virus, which has killed 46 people in Asia since it erupted at the end of 2003, is now endemic in parts of the region despite the slaughter of 140 million birds.