Sunday, May 16, 2010

Vietnam: Dong Thap Province - Dengue total 600 cases this year

From the beginning of the year, Dong Thap province has more than 600 cases of dengue fever and two cases were fatal, up 1.5 times over the same period last year.

Director of Preventive Medical Center of Dong Thap province, said Nguyen Ngoc India forecast cycle, this year will be the year of dengue fever outbreak largest in this province, likely higher than 3000 cases last year year. Moreover, animal disease situation, complicated poultry in the border areas.

According to Dong Thap province, territory Prayveng province (Cambodia) border with Dong Thap Province has been an outbreak of bird flu and many deaths in humans infected with influenza A/H5N1. Therefore, this has prohibited local purchase and transportation of livestock, poultry and livestock products, poultry across borders; reviewing the results of vaccination, rapid vaccination supplement for poultry and livestock new.

In addition, the temperature difference between day and night to rise, causing nearly 1,000 hectares of shrimp farming in the provinces of Ca Mau, Bac Lieu, Tien Giang, Ben Tre ... damaged. In Ca Mau, to this point has more than 7300 infected breeding pigs, of which nearly 1,100 dead. As the leading agricultural province, which is just the kind of common diseases, and blood diseases identical capacitors, cholera, typhoid deal, foot and mouth ... regularly vaccinated.

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