Bird flu kills Vietnamese man, tests show

HANOI - Test results showed bird flu killed a 35-year-old Vietnamese man, the first victim of a new outbreak of the virus in poultry in the Southeast Asian country, state media said.

"This is the first death since the start of this year's epidemic season," Deputy Health Minister Trinh Quan Huan was quoted as saying of the man who died late last month in Hanoi.

- REUTERS