Influenza A/H1N1 and A/H5N1 risk interact with each other

[article on the situation in Vietnam]

Updated at 17h31, on September 12, 2009
(VnMedia) - At the meeting the National Steering Committee for prevention of influenza pandemic in humans pm 9/12, Assoc. TS. Nguyen Tran Hien - Director of Institute of hygiene and epidemiology said the Central Government, translated influenza A/H1N1 still complicated development, especially with multiple risk occurring interaction between influenza A/H1N1 and influenza A/H5N1 in community.

According to survey research institute of the Central Hygiene and Epidemiology, cases of death from influenza A/H5N1 in Dien Bien past have discovered a family of patients positive for influenza A/H1N1. Meanwhile, poultry was raised in the patients were infected avian influenza H5N1.

Assoc. TS. Shows that the two types of this virus live together in one area can lead to the risk of formation of new virus strains with pathogenic stronger. Therefore, the Institute is conducting close monitoring of the outbreak evolutions in time to cope with bad situations can occur.
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