"One mother and two children of the endangered Owston's palm civets died in the same cage in June with a confirmation of H5N1 infection by a laboratory in Hong Kong," said Hoang Van Than, deputy director of the Cuc Phuong National Park in northern Ninh Binh province, 90 kilometres (55 miles) south of Hanoi.
Some chickens raised by farmers nearby had also succumbed to the virus while only three of the more than 20 civets raised in the park were infected, Than said.
Here is the story. Civets were suspected at one point to be the source of SARS in China.
