Asia has been worrying about the lunar new year, with millions traveling in crowded conditions and then sitting down to big family dinners with lots of chicken. According to Thanh Nien Daily, it's been a tough start to the Year of the Ox in Vietnam, but so far no one's come down with H5N1:
A hospital in the central province of Phu Yen has treated more than 300 emergency cases in three days from the Lunar New Year’s Eve on Sunday to Tuesday.
Head of the Phu Yen General Hospital, Bui Tran Ngoc, said yesterday that on Sunday and the first two days of the Lunar New Year, the hospital received 361 cases in which 188 had to be admitted as inpatients.
Ngoc said 151 people were hospitalized on Tuesday, the second day of Tet, one of whom was declared dead on arrival from knife wounds.
Most of the cases brought to the hospital were traffic accidents, and about nine involved fights, Ngoc said.
