DOCTORS have removed a bullet from the heart of a Vietnamese soldier nearly four decades after he was shot by US troops during the Vietnam War, doctors said yesterday.

Vietnam health officials said today that five members of a family that ran a chicken farm in northern Vietnam have tested positive for bird flu.

Vietnam today reported two new suspected cases of bird flu in humans as outbreaks among poultry spread to all parts of the country.

A nine-year-old boy in Vietnam has died of bird flu, bringing the number of people in the country killed by the virus to 21, a doctor said today.