A 10-year-old girl from Hanoi, Vietnam, has died from avian flu, marking a 50th death human death caused by the H5N1 virus in Asia. Vietnam has seen 36 of these, Thailand 12 and Cambodia two.

This follows the government’s launch of a national clean-up campaign design to control the spread of bird flu by disinfecting large-scale commercial chicken operations but also backyard farms which are now being associated with the rapid spread of the disease.

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