The 23-year-old man died last week, two days after being admitted to a hospital in the northern province of Dien Bien, some 310 miles (500 kilometers) north of Hanoi, the ministry said in a statement on its Web site.
Test results confirmed he was infected with the H5N1 bird flu virus. He fell sick after eating duck blood pudding.
Last week, the WHO warned that with fresh H5N1 bird flu cases reported in poultry in Egypt, Indonesia, Thailand and Vietnam, the risk of bird flu and the H1N1 pandemic swine flu virus mixing was heightened. Egypt also has recently reported human cases.
Source: http://www.chinapost.com.tw/asia/vietnam/2009/12/01/234910/Vietnam-reports.htm 
