Sunday, March 1, 2009

Hanoi: Dịch measles in children increase

Saturday, 28/02/2009, 01:45 (GMT +7)

(SGGP). - On 27-2, Le Anh Tuan, Director of the Department of Health Hanoi, says that, up to this city in the province had 1,420 people have fever, rash type measles, including 242 who identified positive with the measles virus, 79% of patients in age from 15 upwards.

Children's Hospital Central for about 1 week recently, children with measles in the form to the examination and hospitalization increased strongly. Most number of children are hospitalized with serious complication such as pneumonia, inflammation of the brain. Number of child fever in the form of measles Hospital Pon Green is also about 50%.

Significant note, many cases children have been vaccinated after measles 9 months old but still be infected again.

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