Vietnam Confirms 42nd Flu Death
Country Has Highest Death Rate; Tamiflu Maker Halts Sales In China
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In this photo released by Ibaraki prefectural government, workers in protective gears prepare to slaughter live chickens at a farm where bird flu has been detected, in the village of Ogawa, Ibaraki prefecture, northeast of Tokyo, Monday, Nov. 7, 2005. (AP)
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A worker disinfects empty bird cages at a closed poultry market in Beijing Monday Nov. 7, 2005. (AP)
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A Chinese worker disinfects ducks at a fowl market in Hefei, in China's Anhui province. (AP)
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A Vietnamese official puts a chicken into a plastic bag for burial in Van Trung village in Bac Giang province, some 37 miles northeast of Hanoi, Vietnam on Friday Nov. 4, 2005. (AP)
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Vietnam confirmed that a 35-year-old man who died on Oct. 29 had contracted bird flu. The man was admitted to a Hanoi hospital four days after his family bought a prepared chicken from a market near his house.
The case, the first in three months in Vietnam, raised the country's death toll to 42, the highest of any nation.
Vietnam will launch large-scale drills in the second half of November to test the country's pandemic readiness, said health ministry spokesman Pham Tuan Hung. The drills will include treating patients, disinfecting the environment and operating mobile units.
Meanwhile, the Swiss maker of Tamiflu said it had stopped selling the antiviral drug in China and was turning over supplies to the government.
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