Sunday, July 19, 2009

Vietnam: Appear H1N1 outbreak in schools

[This is the same Province that I reported the 17 new cases yesterday:

Vietnam: Additional Information on the 17 newly confirmed



Updated: Yesterday at 22:56

3 teachers and 19 students in high school private Ngo The Times, District 9, HCM City has been identified influenza infection. Department of Health by the city, this is to spread the flu outbreak in the community with a large number of the first since the H1N1 flu has.

Addition of 22 identified, Ngô Thời The school also has 9 students of fever, are being tested for the disease.

Representative Department of Health HCMC for reasons to cause disease Bùng at school is due to a grade 10 male students resident in Dong Nai contact with the affected phrase of America. 13 / 7, after they return to school, high fever.

Private schools Ngô Thời The schools are boarding for the students live in HCMC and neighboring provinces. At the time of detection of the disease, has more than 150 students and teachers of impressions.

Before the occurrence of the outbreak with the infection, Health Department had emergency meetings with representatives HCMC Pasteur Institute, Medical Center for District 9, Department of Education and Training Board and the school, uniformly suspend teaching activities in two weeks while the instructions in my book 900 students are studying, protecting the family to the students on monitoring health at home.

The teachers and students close contact with influenza infection have been medical staff for medication tamiflu preservative. Those who are in school to wear to the page.

As of 19 / 7, Vietnam has more than 370 of HPAI H1N1 infection, most of the hospitalizations were in health status is stable. However the Ministry of Health warning, cases infected by HPAI H1N1 is of entering through the border gate road, people from the region and on Vietnam increased, especially in the coming time, students study, the risk of flu and spread of the disease Bùng in schools and communities is very high.

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