越南一男子死于H5N1禽流感

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A 52-year-old man in Ho Chi Minh City has become the first person in Vietnam to die from bird flu in nine months.
　　胡志明市一名52岁的男子成为越南九个月来第一位死于禽流感的人。
　　Vietnamese health officials said Tuesday the man was hospitalized January 11 with a high fever and died a week later. He tested positive for the H5N1 virus.
　　越南卫生部门官员星期二说，这名男子1月11日高烧住院，一个星期后死亡。经检验，他携带有H5N1病毒。
　　Earlier, the man reportedly killed a duck and came into contact with chickens at a market where several birds later died of unknown causes.
　　在这之前，据说他杀了一只鸭，还接触了某座市场的鸡。那处市场后来有几只禽鸟死亡，原因不明。
　　It is Vietnam's first bird flu death since April, when a four-year-old child died.
　　这是越南去年4月以来的首起禽流感病例。当时，一名四岁儿童死于禽流感。
　　The World Health Organization reports that 63 people have died of bird flu in Vietnam since 2003.
　　世界卫生组织说，自从2003年以来，越南有63人死于禽流感。
　　Worldwide, WHO said 385 people have died out of a total of 649 confirmed H5N1 cases in humans.
　　世卫组织说，在全世界范围，总共有649人被确诊感染H5N1病毒，其中385人死亡。
　　The virus usually only infects humans who come into direct contact with diseased birds.
　　这种病毒通常只是在直接接触染病禽鸟之后才传染给人类。
　　Some scientists fear H5N1 could mutate into a form readily transmissible between humans, with the potential to cause many more deaths.
　　一些科学家担心，H5N1病毒有可能变异成为可以轻易在人与人之间传播的病毒，由此带来的死亡数字可能要大得多。