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Published online 13 January 2004 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news040112-3
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Bird flu attacks in Hanoi
Spate of avian influenza has spread to people in Vietnam.
An Asian bird influenza has infected and killed at least three people in Vietnam, sharpening fears of a future pandemic.
Hong Kong's National Influenza Center confirmed on Tuesday that samples taken from three people in Hanoi - two children and one adult - who had died from severe respiratory disease were positive for the avian influenza virus strain A(H5N1).
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