Dr Nguyen Tran Hien, director of the Central Institute for Hygiene and Epidemiology, said his agency and Hong Kong’s Pasteur Institute would be the research partners.
The new method would allow testing a large number of people at a time for the deadly H5N1 strain.
It would be cheap and could be done in ordinary laboratories, he said.
Bird flu tests are now done on a limited number of people at a time in modern labs at high costs.
In Vietnam 93 people have been infected by bird flu, 42 fatally, since the disease first appeared in December 2003. No new cases have been detected since November last year.
Reported by Nam Son – Translated by Hoang Bao |
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