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...Nguyen Huu Viet must have thought the worst was over when he buried his two-year-old son on Dec. 25. The boy had 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...
...were health authorities, who initially feared that the Nguyen family cluster meant the H5N1 virus?which usually only spreads from bird to human in isolated cases?might now be moving from person to person. Since the disease first began jumping from birds to people in 1997, scientists have been worried that the lethal virus could mutate to gain the ability to transmit from one person to another as easily as a normal human-flu virus. That would open the door for a global influenza pandemic that could kill millions...
...These efforts haven't come cheap: the Ministry of Agricultural and Rural Development estimates the economic loss of all that poultry at just under 0.5% of GDP, or $195 million. Nguyen Vau Be and his family in rural Long An province raised 100 ducks to pay for their holiday celebrations and food this year, but when the birds became sick recently, they were forced to kill them. "There's no Tet for us this year," says wife Truong Thi Dua, watching as the live ducks are tossed onto a large bonfire. The family is being compensated with a total...
...Tropical Diseases in Ho Chi Minh City, says he's shocked by the virulence of avian flu in the patients he has helped treat: "I've never experienced anything like it in terms of its destructive power. It is staggering in terms of how much lung tissue is destroyed." Nguyen Thanh Hung, one of the few to survive avian flu, says the disease is pure misery. "I felt like my head was about to explode. My heart was pounding like it would come out of my chest, and I couldn't control my muscles...
...Still peckish? Combine a trip to nearby Saigon Zoo and Botanical Gardens with a treat from the che stall at 25 Nguyen Binh Khiem street. Che are sweet desserts made from various combinations of fruit, beans, tapioca, sugar and sweetened coconut milk, and are hugely popular in the south of Vietnam. At this stall you'll find a refreshing che dau van (made with haricot beans) for a mere 5?. Then drive it home with a digestif of rau ma (liquified pennywort), available from the Ben Thanh market food hall for just 25?. That brings your three-course meal with...