Vietnamese bird flu doctor has bird flu

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HANOI, June 17 (Reuters) - A Vietnamese doctor who treated bird flu patients has contracted the disease himself, a state newspaper reported on Friday.

The male doctor had been taking samples from carriers of the H5N1 virus, the Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper said without specifying how he contracted the disease. His condition was stable, it said.

The infection took to 7 the number of bird flu victims revealed this week in Vietnam and the number of infections to 62 since December, 18 of whom have died.