Huynh Trung Kien, acting manager of Ca Mau’s health department said the four cases, all in a family in Nam Can district, were hospitalized with symptoms like coughs and high fever after they consumed chickens last week.

The victims were immediately quarantined with their samples submitted to laboratory for testing, Kien said.

Nguyen Huu Minh, deputy head of the animal health department of Soc Trang reported two people in My Tu district had difficulty breathing after eating chicken.

He added bird flu had yet to spread to Soc Trang and the patients had reportedly eaten healthy poultry.

Minh said the results from tests run on the two had not yet been received.

To date, bird flu has resurfaced in 10 Vietnamese communes in six districts in Ca Mau, Bac Lieu and Hau Giang provinces.

Source: Tuoi Tre – Translated by Tuong Nhi