Via the Straits Times, an AFP story: Vietnam records 1st case. Excerpt:
A 23-year-old Vietnamese man has tested positive for swine flu in what would be the the first case in the Southeast Asian nation, a doctor said on Sunday.
An initial test conducted on Saturday at the tropical diseases hospital in southern Ho Chi Minh City was positive, Phan Van Tu, a doctor with the city’s Pasteur Institute, told AFP.
But he said the Pasteur Institute, which specialises in testing for infectious diseases, would conduct another test on Sunday. The patient was in a stable condition with a slight fever, Dr Tu added.
State-linked Tuoi Tre newspaper reported that the patient is a student recently returned from the United States.
Tuoi Tre said he arrived in Ho Chi Minh City from the US Monday night and was admitted to hospital there after being checked by health authorities.
The newspaper, which did not give a source for its report, said the student later left hospital to go home but on Friday went to the tropical diseases hospital, where he tested positive for the A(H1N1) virus.
