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...drowned two days before in a fishpond near their home in northern Vietnam's Thai Binh province, and Viet was undone by the death. At the funeral the family served raw duck blood and porridge?rural comfort food. Although they had heard that the avian influenza that swept Southeast Asia last year had returned, they thought the disease was confined to the south. The day after the funeral, Viet fell sick with flulike symptoms. He was hospitalized on Dec. 31, and tested negative for the H5N1 virus that causes avian flu. Viet deteriorated rapidly and died...
...Year festival (beginning Feb. 9) are the perfect ingredients for an explosive rise in infections?and every infection gives the H5N1 virus the opportunity to further adapt to humans. "If something is going to cook, Tet is when it's going to happen," says Dr. Robert Webster, an avian-flu expert at the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis...
...unhygienic wet markets, which sold live chickens and ducks, forcing all incoming poultry to be killed at slaughterhouses. Market monitors, backed by riot police, are manning checkpoints on major highways to ensure that all incoming poultry have "passports" proving that they've been inspected by government veterinarians for avian flu. Since December, 800,000 birds have been culled in the ongoing effort to eradicate the outbreak; 40 million of Vietnam's 258 million total poultry population have been culled since the disease first emerged in late 2003. "They're definitely responding much better than this time last year," says...
With 44 people infected and 32 dead from the avian flu, it wasn't a good year to spend time near ducks or chickens, particularly in Southeast Asia. Millions of fowl were culled in Thailand and Vietnam, which bore the brunt of this year's outbreak of H5N1 influenza, as fear of a widespread epidemic mounted. Public-health officials were particularly alarmed when the virus showed up in tigers, leopards and pigs, mammals that often serve as influenza bridges from animal reservoirs to humans. And in Thailand scientists identified one case of what they fear was human-to-human transmission...
...year before the flu hit, life expectancy in the U.S. was 51 years. In 1918, it was 39 years-a drop that was due almost entirely to the flu. Worldwide, 100 million or more may have died from the Spanish flu, including 20 million in India alone. And with avian influenza, it could happen all over again...