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Tuesday, February 21, 2006

From the Far East, a Lesson in How to Beat Bird Flu

With Britain braced for disease's imminent arrival, Vietnam, the world's worst-hit country, is first to defeat it.
By Jeremy Laurance, Health Editor, in Hanoi
Published: 20 February 2006

As avian flu advances across Europe towards the UK, public health experts in the Far East claimed the first significant victory against the H5N1 virus since the current outbreak began two years ago.

Vietnam, the worst affected country in the world with 93 human cases and 42 deaths, has become the first to successfully contain the disease that threatens to become a global human pandemic, according to the World Health Organisation.

Read full article from the Independent UK here

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