Along with many diseases increases caused by hot weather, according to the Department of Preventive Medicine, said the disease risk is complicated place. Continue to record the number of people infected with cholera in southern Tien Giang and Ben Tre is that the main reason for the loss of food hygiene and drinking water contamination. Back to the Northern region, encephalitis epidemic is also the peak season. More worryingly is through research and investigations in recent surveillance sites in Nam Dinh, Bac Giang, Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology has discovered a new virus causing encephalitis level.
Dr. Tran Nhu Duong, Deputy Director of the Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology, said the new virus disease caused by this situation caused basically the same with Japanese encephalitis virus. The disease begins with high fever, seizures, mental status changes, but it was different and more dangerous than the virus causing encephalitis virus is usually sudden death, in which disease concentrated in age groups under 15, highest in children under 5 years old.
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