(Reuters)
Updated: 2004-02-10 11:23

A laboratory researcher demonstrates a detection test for bird flu at the National Institute of Animal Health's department of infectious diseases in Tsukuba city, north of Tokyo, February 10, 2004. A Vietnamese man died of bird flu on Monday, taking Asia's death toll to 19, and a Cambodian woman who died last week in a Vietnamese hospital could be the first victim from that neighbouring country. [Reuters]