Bird flu claims 19th victim
A 27-year-old man whose family kept chickens in Vietnam died today, becoming Asia’s 19th bird flu fatality, while Malaysian authorities quarantined a pet-store owner on fears he may also have caught the virus striking the region’s poultry.
Malaysia so far has kept free of the disease, which has prompted restrictions worldwide on poultry imports from affected countries and government-ordered culls of millions of infected chickens.
