15/04/2010 06:39
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(HNM) - Afternoon 14-4, the Steering Committee for prevention and, meeting at the Ministry of Health. Dr. Tran Nhu Duong, Deputy Director of Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology INVESTMENT, said last week, the discovery of two patients infected with influenza A/H5N1 house only 100 meters apart along rural Cao Na (As can commune, Cho Moi district, Bac Kan province) in a critical condition has led epidemiologists suspected influenza A/H5N1 spread from person to person. But the results of epidemiological investigation showed that these two patients with a history of contact with infected birds and had never met before.
At present, although four new localities recorded cholera patients but the medical experts identified the risk of an outbreak of cholera to the big time. The cause is translated by the unusually hot weather in the South in those days was favorable conditions for developing cholera. Heat leads to lack of clean water supplies have caused many people do not use water hygiene, the risk of cholera rise. Plus, the food in hot and humid conditions are not good storage has harmful bacteria, especially cholera bacteria arise. Thus, Nguyen Huy Nga, director of the Department of Preventive Medicine and Environment recommends people make so strictly cooked diet, drink boiled, minimize food sidewalks, no street maintenance hygiene, environmental sanitation, personal cleanliness, hand washing habits created with soap before eating and after using the toilet
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