Vietnam

bird flu deaths: The number of human deaths from bird flu is soaring in Asia. The recent deaths of a 35-year-old woman and a 17-year-old boy in Vietnam took to nine the total number of human victims

Publication Date:

14/02/2005

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

13

Issue:

20050215

pp:

0

Tags:

Air Transport, Birds, Vietnam, Diseases

Water Resources

Its official

Agent Orange induced misery in New Zealand

Publication Date:

14/11/2004

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Vietnam, New Zealand

India

Burn baby burn

The use of Agent Orange during the Vietnam war maimed US soldiers as well. A first hand account

Publication Date:

29/09/2004

Author(s): Gary Chenett

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

13

Issue:

20040930

pp:

0

Tags:

Cancer, Women, Compensation, Health Care, Dioxin, War, Vietnam, United States Of America (US)

India

Snippets

Bird flu has afflicted Vietnam again. As per official reports, the country's southern Mekong Delta region has been affected the most. The outbreak in the southern province of Bac Lieu has

Publication Date:

30/07/2004

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

13

Issue:

20040731

pp:

0

Tags:

Vietnam

India

Losing out

India fails to get AIDS aid

Publication Date:

30/07/2004

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

13

Issue:

20040731

pp:

0

Tags:

AIDS, Aid, Aid Agencies, Vietnam, India

India

Avian flu flitting from birds to humans

Even as India is trying to build a firewall to block out the bird flu virus, the first likely case of the deadly pathogen s human to human transmission has surfaced in Vietnam. Two siblings in Hanoi are suspected to have contracted the disease from their

Publication Date:

28/02/2004

Author(s): T V Jayan

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Poultry, Health Effects, Trade, Birds, Research, South Korea, Thailand, Vietnam, India

Energy