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Published online 13 August 2004 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news040809-16
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Bird flu kills three people in Vietnam
Deaths swing spotlight back to vaccine efforts.
A strain of bird flu has taken three lives in Vietnam, health authorities revealed yesterday, renewing fears of a human pandemic and focusing attention on the sluggish progress towards a vaccine.
The deaths, which were announced by Vietnamese health officials on 12 August, are the first to be reported since February this year, when avian influenza swept through poultry in Asia.
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