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Article: After bird flu kills six in Vietnam, WHO warns that repeat of last year's outbreak possible
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- January 20, 2005
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MARGIE MASON, Associated Press Writer
AP Worldstream
01-20-2005
Dateline: HANOI, Vietnam
Health experts are bracing for a repeat of last year's bird flu outbreak after six people died in Vietnam within three weeks and neighboring Thailand reported its first case among poultry this year.
Outbreaks among poultry have been reported nationwide in Vietnam, and health experts say the pattern looks worrying similar to last year, when the virus spread rapidly just before the Lunar New Year holiday, or Tet. It quickly appeared in nine other Asian countries, killing or forcing the slaughter of more than 100 million birds and jumping from poultry to people in Vietnam and Thailand, where 26 and 12 ...