Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Vietnam-A more deaths due to influenza A/H1N1



(Dân trí) - late afternoon on 11 / 8, doctor Phan Van Nghiệm, Manager for Health, Department of Health TPHCM, confirmed a female patient infected with influenza A/H1N1 has fatal respiratory failure due to hospital Pham Ngoc Thach. This is the second death due to H1N1 in Vietnam.
TTB is patient, 52 years old (3 months in 2, District 10, HCM City) to have a congenital disease and Down (minimum of wisdom) and some other diseases.

Due to the manifestations of pain, fever, or other dam, pepper liquid and vomiting during 3 days, medication should not on 6 / 8, the family has taken patients to hospital treatment for District 10. Do see patients with more severe manifestations of the District Hospital has 10 patient B. BV to 115 people on the same day.


Here, the patient was diagnosed with pneumonia, blood pressure dropped unknown causes. Patients to transmit disease, tests, taking X-ray lung, results showed that the lungs not fuzzy in the bottom of the lungs, and was diagnosed with fever, shock tracking of blood - pneumonia and specialist in Islamic positive -- antitrust (BV 115 people).


However, after 3 days of treatment, patient by patient B still remission. Doctors hospital with 115 physicians Pham Ngoc Thach has the legs and then the samples tested influenza A/H1N1 virus on 9 / 8.

To date 10 / 8 results patients positive for influenza A/H1N1. Then, the patient was transferred to hospital Pham Ngoc Thach at 19h on 10 / 8 with diseases of the respiratory failure of acute but at 22h25 the same day, the patient B. has died.

After the patient died, the Department of Health City conducted patient samples subject to a review of H1N1 times 3 (2 times before the Pasteur Institute and the Hospital of Tropical Diseases of). Results re-test the latest today (11 / 8) also have similar results with 2 times before.

According conclusion that Health Department submitted to the Ministry of Health, the cause of death is due to patients with evidence of respiratory failure evolving level - increased thoughts on patients infected with influenza A/H1N1- of the Down.

Department of Health does recommend TT Health for the city, BV Q.10 conduct epidemiological investigation of the exposure, the micro-organism environment and keep the patient back to avoid spreading.

Expected, tomorrow, 12 / 8, the patient will be cremation to prevent the spread of the virus.

So, this is the second death related to influenza A/H1N1. Earlier, a female patient in Khanh Hoa influenza A/H1N1 infection and death due to respiratory failure of the 3 / 8 patients and this was cremation.

Go flu A/H1N1, on 11/8/2009, Vietnam has recorded 33 more cases positive for influenza A/H1N1 (South: 16 CA, Northern: 10 ca, Central: 7 ca). Thus, up to 17h on 11/8/2009, Vietnam has recorded 1,211 positive cases, 01 deaths.
Number of patients was 883 members, 328 cases are currently being re-isolation, treatment at hospitals, treatment facilities, monitoring community health status is stable, without serious complication.

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